Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:48:02 -0500 From: "Jay West" <jlwest@tseinc.com> To: "Sean Eric Fagan" <sef@kithrup.com>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT Message-ID: <006401bef0de$38573d80$d402a8c0@ws2.tse.com>
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I had written..... >>As a matter of fact, the standard version of merced includes the PA-RISC >>engine along with an x86 instruction decoder. To which you replied... >Uh, no. > >The Merced does not do PA-RISC decoding in hardware. Period. Wrong. I wish I could send you the Internal design papers that I've gone over myself at HP. It was several years ago, but.... The merced executes PA-RISC instructions natively. It also executes x86 instructions natively. If the chip you get doesn't do one or the other, it's because that section has been lobotomized for marketing/contract reasons due to where you get the chip from. The section is still on the silicon though... Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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