> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 03:04:17PM +0000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > Author: pfg > > Date: Sat Mar 4 15:04:17 2017 > > New Revision: 314669 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314669 > > > > Log: > > Drop i486 from the default i386 GENERIC kernel configuration. > > > > 80486 production was stopped by Intel on September 2007. Dropping the 486 > > configuration option from the GENERIC kernel improves performance > > slightly. > > > > Removing I486_CPU is consistent at this time: we don't support any > > processor without a FPU and the PC-98 arch, which frequently involved i486 > > CPUs, is also gone so we don't test such platforms anymore. > > What is realy mean? > Some Via CPU is like i486 (by instruction set). > > CPU: VIA Ezra (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin="CentaurHauls" Id=0x678 Family=0x6 Model=0x7 Stepping=8 > Features=0x803035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX> > AMD Features=0x80000000<3DNow!>
There is also the whole 486sx family that is 486 die that they turned the FPU feature off in cause it failed functional test at die sort. -- Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
