Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:42:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RANDOMDEV inspired realitycheck regarding i386/i486... Message-ID: <XFMail.001114114217.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200011141936.MAA49406@harmony.village.org>
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On 14-Nov-00 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <XFMail.001114100929.jhb@FreeBSD.org> John Baldwin writes: >: What is the current processor of choice for embedded stuff? Is x86 even a >: good architecture for embedded work? That is the only place that I would >: see >: the 386 still being alive... > > Timing Solutions has several 486 based machines. There are very few > 386 machines out there still in the SBC arena, but I understand that > the 386EX is still alive and kicking in the "put a cpu on the board" > market. > > The random device seeding issue is still a problem. It must complete > in << 10 s on slow hardware and << 1s on fast hardware. Mark Murray > and I talked about this at BSDcon and he indicated to me that he'll be > fixing the speed aspect of it soon, or at least in the fullness of time. > > Warner Would anyone have a heart attack if we removed I386_CPU from GENERIC but did not remove the 386 code? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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