Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:10:34 -0500 From: "Adam Maas" <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Bob Bishop" <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? Message-ID: <001401c2e071$ac4da090$7419cdcd@ticking> References: <54906.1046466049@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030228.135726.11052754.imp@bsdimp.com> <54906.1046466049@critter.freebsd.dk> <4.3.2.7.2.20030301115228.02109e18@gid.co.uk> <3E60D869.8F654737@mindspring.com>
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Blue Lightning was an i486 core in a i386SX/DX compatible package (usually SX). AMD's i386DX's predate Blue Lightning by about 5 years. Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Bob Bishop" <rb@gid.co.uk> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>; <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>; <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: Re: Any ideas why we can't even boot a i386 ? > Bob Bishop wrote: > > At 21:06 28/2/03, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > >[...] We have some a few embedded systems coming back > > >from the field soon and I plan on trying some tests on them (they are > > >amd 386, so might not be good for you). [etc] > > > > IIRC AMD had a mask deal with Intel for the 386, so should be OK. > > Are you sure that AMD did not use the IBM "Blue Lightening" > core? > > I'm pretty sure that there are a huge number of embedded controllers > that used the Intel 386GX macrocell, though... > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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