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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!194.87.0.28!demos!newsfeed.sovam.com!sovam!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eerie.fr!cnusc.fr!ciril.fr!grenet.fr!news.ujf-grenoble.fr!adm-bruno From: Gilles.Bruno@ujf-grenoble.fr (Bruno Gilles) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any problems with the Cyrix cpus? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:14:01 GMT Organization: Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I Lines: 40 Message-ID: <5p03p9$oo_004@adm-bruno.ujf-grenoble.fr> References: <33b10877.87326905@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <33b2b981.183990@news> NNTP-Posting-Host: adm-bruno.ujf-grenoble.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: Cyrix P200+ custom kernel X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.01 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43624 AFAIK the 6x86 133, 150 and 166+ reportef themselves just like '486' (using the cpuid function) : this messed up OSes including Win95 and FreeBSD... The trick is to let the 'cpu "I486_CPU"' in your config file. I've no info about either the 6x86 cpuid 'compliance', nor if they'll benefit or at least support the profiled libs... Someone must know - ie. ther just such a thread several weeks ago on the 'hardware' list about K6 perfs. May be you should crosspost you question to this list... In article <33b2b981.183990@news>, rhyde@uclink4.berkeley.edu wrote: > (snip) > >On a reated note. >I've just put together a Cyrix 6x86 P200+ box and have some questions >about my custom kernal. I tried a make on my kernal after removing >both the 386 and the 486 sections at the top of the config file. The >make failed giving me a few errors (damn if I remember them though). >I went back and did a make with just the 386 line commented, that >worked fine. Is the 6x86 more a 486 than a pent? Also, are pentium >optimized files 6x86 optimized? Would it be more effective to use >pgcc or plain old gcc? >But other than all that FreeBSD screams on that machine. (even with >two IDE hardrives, of which one was manufactured in '89 and the other >also used and sporting a 420mb unformated capacity) > >Just slightly off topic but thanks. > >Trey >rhyde@uclink4.berkeley.edu > -- Gilles BRUNO Universite Joseph Fourier - CRIP Domaine Universitaire 38041 St Martin d'Heres FRANCE Tel (33) 04 76 63 56 68 Fax (33) 04 76 51 42 74