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To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: NExGen chip Nx586-100 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jun 1996 20:22:18 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:19:09 -0700
From: Scott MacFiggen <smurf@csua.berkeley.edu>
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>Any chance you left kernel.GENERIC or kernel.old or such laying around from
>the original release? You could boot to it from the boot manager and all
>would be well again. Else boot the boot floppy, and maybe the root floppy,
>then take the fixit floppy option, and you might be able to move one of
>those kernels to your hd root to get the system running again.

I wish I could remember, I set up my system when 2.1 was released
and haven't touched a thing since.

>I looked at the Linux patch for NexGen and didn't find any similar code in
>the FreeBSD kernel. To optimize an Nx586 to 100% of its potential for
>FreeBSD one would need proper documentation from NexGen as to exactly what
>they offer.

I think I'll head over to the freebsd-hackers list and see if there
is any interest. I am currently on contract at Nexgen as a sysadmin
so I might be able to get some support from within.

>The Linux NexGen patch can be found at http://www.cantrip.org/ncm.html

I glanced at the patch and it doesn't seem to complicated, but then 
again I am not a kernel hacker by any measure.

Thanks for the help, I'll go see what the freebsd hackers have to say.

>David Kelly N4HHE,   n4hhe@amsat.org,    dkelly@hiwaay.net

	-Scott