From ea4009d75fdeef33d5c89a76ef4af00adf259d47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wilko Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:58:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note on instruction emulation on EV[45] for things like BWX. --- release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 77f47105afd6..6b05cc883f94 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -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 -------------------