Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:30:16 -0400 From: "Eloy A. Paris" <Eloy.Paris@ven.ra.rockwell.com> To: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@MARMOT.Mole.ORG> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD works with Cy486DLC processors? Message-ID: <2.2.16.19960618104803.1597ca9a@zeus.ven.ra.rockwell.com>
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>Are you sure it's a 486DLC CPU? I have a system with a Cyrix 486DLC
>(running System V R2), and it's a 40MHz part and is not clock-multiplied.
>I also have a newer Cyrix486DX2/66 system (which will not run at 33MHz,
>but is fine at 25MHz making it in reality a DX2/50). At 33MHz it gets
>random odd hardware errors including both hangs and signal 4, 10 and 11.
>I'm satisfied with it at 25MHz since it just acts as a PPP connection and
>firewall and a DX2/50 is fast enough for that.
Ooppss!!! You are absolutely right. My CPU is a 486DX4 NOT a 486DLC. The
problem was that I was looking at what the kernel gives me at boot time:
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #2: Mon Jun 17 12:22:05 AST 1996
eparis@skynet.ven.ra.rockwell.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/SKYNET
CPU: Cy486DLC (486-class CPU)
Origin = "Cyrix"
.
.
.
The processor has "486DX4" written on top of it. My apologies for causing
this confussion.
>If it works sometimes and not others, then the probability of a hardware
>problem is greater.
I agree. This has to be a hardware problem, nothing more, nothing less.
Can it be that the problem is that FreeBSD is mistakenly identifying the
processor? Can I force FreeBSD to correctly identify the processor?
Regards,
Eloy.-
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Eloy A. Paris
Global Technical Services
Rockwell Automation de Venezuela
Telephone: 58-2-9432311 Fax: 58-2-9430323
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