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Add note on instruction emulation on EV[45] for things like BWX.

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Wilko Bulte 2001-03-10 15:58:57 +00:00
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@ -302,6 +302,10 @@ console devices, Ethernet and point-to-point network interfaces, and
mass-storage devices. Entropy from the random(4) device is now
periodically saved to files in /var/db/entropy.
Kernel code has been added that allows older generation Alpha CPUs
(EV4 and EV5) to emulate instructions of the newer Alpha CPU
generations. This enables the use of binary-only programs like Adobe
Acrobat 4 on EV4 and EV5.
1.2. SECURITY FIXES
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