[PATCH] Utilize i686, SSE and MMX by default on FreeBSD/i386

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> writes:
> Perhaps I was wrong, but I thought Scott's question was more general:
> is there a desire for a special installation suitable to small
> appliances (usually flash-based)?

Not all "small appliances" are flash-based; the Geode-based soekris can
use 2.5" disks and has enough memory to run a stock install.  The only
trouble I've had is with /etc/periodic/daily/470.status-named, which
uses an ungodly amount of memory.  The AMD Geode is more or less
equivalent to a Pentium MMX, and does not have SSE.

Soekris net4801-48:

CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi (266.65-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "Geode by NSC"  Id = 0x540  Stepping = 0
  Features=0x808131<FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX>
real memory  = 134217728 (128 MB)
avail memory = 126160896 (120 MB)

Soekris net5501-70:

CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (499.91-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x5a2  Stepping = 2
  Features=0x88a93d<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CLFLUSH,MMX>
  AMD Features=0xc0400000<MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
real memory  = 536870912 (512 MB)
avail memory = 510726144 (487 MB)

DES
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