On 07/01/2013 09:27 AM, noah pugsley wrote:
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At first I thought this was a wonderful troll. Guy's got a point though.
Look at the i386 page.
http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html:
Supported hardware:
The list of supported hardware is relevant to OpenBSD-current. It will
differ slightly from the support provided in the latest release version.
Processors
All CPU chips compatible with the Intel 80386 (i386) architecture, except
for the 80386 itself, are supported:
80486 (DX/DX2/DX4)
...[snip painful, incomplete list]...
Transmeta TM3200, TM5400, TM5600, TM5800
Regular floating-point coprocessors (80487SX) are required when not built
into the processor.
really, I think that's more wrong. Trying to itemize the list when
various manufacturers are constantly cranking out new and reusing old
names is misleading in the other direction. I think it could be reduced
to just:
Everything that is a clone of the 486 or up should work fine.
maybe adding a blurb about how a standard hardware FPU is required, as
someone out there might still have some 486SX systems laying around.
This is easier than amd64... just about everything works, and if it
doesn't, it is not likely a processor issue. amd64...well, some of the
Intel chips, you just need (or it is easier) to test to find out if you
got the right bit of magic.
Nick.
