On Friday 06 April 2007 14:54, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Well for one you should probably not try to boot an i686 kernel > > > > on a 486.... > > > It's not an i686 kernel. It's an i486 kernel with code to > > > recognize and support i586 and i686 CPUs. > > Technically it's neither. It's an i386 kernel with support for > > 486-, 586- and 686-class CPUs. > > No. It won't run on an i386. Atomic operations are ridiculously > inefficient on the i386 (no cmpxchg), so we don't use i386-compatible > code unless I386_CPU was specified.
And support for I386_CPU was removed in 6.0. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
