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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
>
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