what can i do with a 486?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 06 April 2007 14:54, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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.

And support for I386_CPU was removed in 6.0.

-- 
John Baldwin