cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml

Peter Jeremy PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Thu May 12 12:43:10 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-May-12 19:17:15 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>(The hardware notes for 6-CURRENT seems to be correct, while those for
>5-STABLE needs to be updated.  The hardware notes for both 4.x and 5.x
>also has bogus warnings about the 80386sx which should be removed. (Bogus
>since from the OS's point of view there is no difference whatsoever
>between the 80386sx and a full-blowb 80386dx.)

OTOH, FreeBSD won't work on a 80486sx since that doesn't have a FPU.
Either a 80486dx or a 80486sx/80487 is needed.  This probably should
be documented instead.  And some of the 486 clones didn't have a FPU
either (the IBM ones come to mind).

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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