Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy_at_optushome.com.au> writes: > Does anyone know why FreeBSD 5.x would not run on a 386SX/387SX > combination? I realise the performance would be very poor but I > don't see any reason why it wouldn't work at all. It should run fine (though quite slowly) on a 386 with a 387 FPU, but you need to roll your own release. The reason why we don't support the 386 out of the box is that a kernel that will run on a 386 will be very inefficient on newer CPUs (the synchronization code relies on a particular instruction which was introduced with the 486 and must be emulated on the 386) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.noReceived on Sat Jan 24 2004 - 06:26:49 UTC
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