New CPUTYPE default for i386 port

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 7 12:27:38 UTC 2019


On 06.10.2019 6:54, Warner Losh wrote:

> There are two issues here. First, the pentiums under ~200mhz don't support
> booting off of CDROM. Second, most of the Pentium chipsets couldn't use
> more than 64MB, so often that was the max you could get. Pentium Pro in
> that era did more memory, but it was the first i686. Pentium II were a
> different story as well. Both often were provisioned with 128MB or more.
 There are embedded devices, like AMD Geode, which could be loaded with
enough memory, but is not fully i686.

 Soekris Net5501, anyone?

-- 
// Lev Serebryakov

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