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[Erik Trulsson]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 05:42:36AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 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.

Correct, but that is technically included in stating that an FPU is
needed.  (Which the 6-CURRENT hardware notes does say, but the
5-STABLE hardware notes does not.)
(And FreeBSD 4.x should work fine on a 80486sx.)


>  And some of the 486 clones didn't have a FPU
> either (the IBM ones come to mind).

Quite possible. I must admit I know nearly nothing about the various
486 clones out there (other than the fact that such clones did exist.)



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