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From: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD support Cyrix 6x86??
Date: 18 Jun 1996 12:47:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: root@Dorm12.NCTU.edu.tw's message of 16 Jun 1996 16:18:32 GMT

In article <4q1c4o$gjv@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> root@Dorm12.NCTU.edu.tw (Avatar) writes:

>         When I use option i586,it failed to recognize my 6x86...

>         can BSD support it at the further version?

	Specify CPU	"I486_CPU" ... the Cyrix 6x86 probes as a 486, but
works just dandy (it's pretty speedy for integer ops too!).


-matt

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