On 13 Jan 2008, at 1:38, John Nemeth wrote: > On Jun 4, 8:04am, Steve Woodford wrote: > } On Friday 11 January 2008 01:47:05 Andrew Doran wrote: > } > I tried this out by disabling FP. The machine booted OK but a lot was > } > broken. Almost all recent x86 processors have FP, including the > } > embedded class ones, so I think it should be removed. > } > } I'm all for removing it, so long as i386 libc is fixed to support > } soft-float builds. > } > } For the record, I have a local port of NetBSD for the Linksys WRT54GR, > } which has an RDC-something-or-other SoC: > } > } cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor) > } cpu0: Cyrix 486DLC (486-class) > > Wow! I've almost forgotten about those things. I'm surprised > that anybody is still using them and that Cyrix is still around. I'm > sure that there are processors that are better and just as cheap that > can be used. I had two 486dlc one a 40Mhz other either 25 or 33MHz. The 486dlc40 was used for several years as a firewall, only 8MB ram and NetBSD 1.5x through various updates to 1.6x. I think at least one may have been isa+vesa+pci. That and a 486dx33 firewall ran reliably 24/7 for periods up to near 200days between the occasional updates. I still may have some backups with dmesg but chances are there was a fpu of some kind. From a quick search I can't locate any dmesg but var/log/messages if anyone is interested: NetBSD 1.6 cpu0: Cyrix 486DLC (486-class) no indication of cpu speed or features though. I wasn't able to get either to run reliably on either FreeBSD or NetBSD 2.0 and up and both the 486dlc systems died in the process. David