I had written..... >>As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC >>engine along with an x86 instruction decoder.
To which you replied... >Uh, no. > >The Merced does not do PA-RISC decoding in hardware. Period. Wrong. I wish I could send you the Internal design papers that I've gone over myself at HP. It was several years ago, but.... The merced executes PA-RISC instructions natively. It also executes x86 instructions natively. If the chip you get doesn't do one or the other, it's because that section has been lobotomized for marketing/contract reasons due to where you get the chip from. The section is still on the silicon though... Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
