what can i do with a 486?
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Fri Apr 6 18:54:18 UTC 2007
Darren Pilgrim <phi at evilphi.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Darren Pilgrim <phi at evilphi.com> 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.
DES
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