In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >Also, 386-core based chips are still in production (or have been in >the last year). It has only been very recently that the embedded >chips have transitioned to 486. Calling them, as others have, 10 >years obsolete is a bit of an overstatement...
My main concern would be if the chips have the necessary "umphf" to actually do a real-world job once they're done running all the overhead of 5.0-R. The lack of cmpxchg8 makes the locking horribly expensive. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
