Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 (not 486 586 etc) ?

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Fri Apr 11 00:21:04 PDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:11:35PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
>Julian Stacey wrote:
>> freebsd-hackers@,
>> Anyone seen 4.8-RELEASE running on a real 386 processor (not a 486, 586 etc) ?
>
>You must config your kernel with a CPU type of 386, so that it
>will not atttempt to use 486-specific instructions, and so it
>will emulate kernel write faulting, since the 386 does not do
>this correctly.

The kernel must have had I386_CPU because otherwise it would it would
panic via panicifcpuunsupported() from cpu_startup().

Peter


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