On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:53:02 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > >Apparently it's not quite a full i686. The research I did at the time > >indicated that using anything higher than i486 was asking for > >problems. > > I am a little surprised by that. I ran a couple of K6-3 boxes for some > few years using i586. As near as I could tell, those processors only > lacked CMOV instructions when compared with i686. I find it hard to > envisage the Geode lacking any i586 feature, given that it has MMX > instructions, CMOV instructions, the CMPXCHG8B instruction and a TSC > register -- all of those are way beyond i486.
AFAIR is does implement the full i586 set, but some of it badly, so i486 gives better performance... but don't ask me to do an emerge -e world on that box to check it out b:( -- Neil Bothwick Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.
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