Re: Architecture Selection in 2.1.88

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 14:13:07 +0000 (GMT/BST)


On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote:

> *
> * Processor type and features
> *
> Processor family (3=386, 4=486/DX4/Am5x86, 5=Pentium/K5/Cx5x86/6x86,
> 6=PPro/K6/6x86MX) [5=Pentium/K5/Cx5x86/6x86] 5
> defined CONFIG_M586
>
> which I think is an improvement. I'm making an educated guess about the
> AMD versus Cyrix 5x86 chips, and the DX4s.

You may be better using "3=386/other" since there used to be several
early 486 clones around that were best treated as fast 386s.

Mike

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