Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:21:40 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: pahowes@fair-ware.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <200108310121.f7V1Lew91332@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:58:00 PDT." <20010830175800R.jkh@freebsd.org>
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Jordan Hubbard writes: > I don't know where you heard this from, but you heard entirely wrong. > FreeBSD has always worked very well on AMD and Intel processors. My > personal machine has been a K7/900 for a long time now (Slot-A even) No kidding. FreeBSD ran perfectly on even the short lived NexGen CPU. Before AMD bought NexGen lock, stock, and barrel, then dismissed all but the core 20 or so who designed the chip. Turned them loose inside AMD over their existing CPU designers and the result (so far) has lead to the Athlon. Linux had some problems with the NexGen. Maybe Linux had problems with the Athlon? I can't say not knowing. I have an Asus A7V and Athlon 800. What problems I've had are the BIOS's fault, not FreeBSD's. BIOS was so stupid it had to be told to reserve IRQ 4 and 3 for serial ports. OTOH its nice to know they were reassignable for other uses. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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