From: jimbmac@netcom.com (jim mackelvey) Subject: Re: Cyrix 486DLC Processor Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 04:49:57 GMT
David Fox (dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us) wrote:
: Ralph Sims (ralphs@halcyon.com) wrote:
: : williams@cs.curtin.edu.au (Bradley Williamson) writes:
: : >Could someone out there please tell me if Linux SLS/SLW has any problems with the 486SLC/DLC processor that goes unnoticed on an Intel.
: : I have linux with SLIP, etc. running on a Cyrix 486/40 laptop. No
: : problems that I can attribute the the processor. I did have to
: : disable the co-processor functions and use the emulator, however.
: : No biggie.
: For me that would be a 'biggie'. Are you saying that the Cyrix, since
: you couldn't use the floating point, is not compatible? (I thought that
: the Cyrix doesn't have an integrated FPU, so if Linux detects it as a 486,
: but doesn't see that it is missing an FPU, that's not _that_ of a big
: deal.)
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Hope you can clarify, and, (very hopefully!!), soon. Does your laptop have
a FPU that Linux cannot recognize, or do you not have a FPU present. (Hence
and emulator requirement regardless of OS).
TIA
jimbmac@netcom.com (Jim MacKelvey)