FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE Hardware Notes

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

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AMD, AMD Athlon, - AMD Opteron, Athlon, Élan, Opteron, and PCnet are - trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Fujitsu, the Fujitsu logo, LifeBook, + the FreeBSD Foundation.

AMD, + AMD Athlon, AMD Opteron, AMD Phenom, AMD Sempron, AMD Turion, Athlon, + Élan, Opteron, and PCnet are trademarks of Advanced Micro + Devices, Inc.

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Intel, Celeron, EtherExpress, i386, - i486, Itanium, Pentium, and Xeon are trademarks or registered - trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United - States and other countries.

SPARC, SPARC64, and + United States, other countries, or both.

Intel, + Celeron, Centrino, Core, EtherExpress, i386, i486, Itanium, Pentium, + and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation + or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.

SPARC, SPARC64, and UltraSPARC are trademarks of SPARC International, Inc in the United States and other countries. SPARC International, Inc owns all of the SPARC trademarks and under licensing agreements allows the proper use @@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this document, and the FreeBSD Project was aware of the trademark claim, the designations have been followed by the “™” or the - “®” symbol.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Supported Processors and System Boards
3. Supported Devices

1. Introduction

This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for + “®” symbol.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Supported Processors and System Boards
3. Supported Devices

1. Introduction

This document contains the hardware compatibility notes for FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE. It lists the hardware platforms supported by FreeBSD, as well as the various types of hardware devices (storage controllers, network interfaces, and so on), @@ -40,16 +41,16 @@ including installation and development environments.

Note that there are two names for this architecture, AMD64 (AMD) and Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology). 64-bit mode of the two architectures are almost compatible - with each other, and FreeBSD/amd64 should support them + with each other, and FreeBSD/amd64 supports them both.

As of this writing, the following processors are - supported:

AMD Athlon™64 (“Clawhammer”).
AMD Opteron™ (“Sledgehammer”).
All multi-core Intel® Xeon™ processors except + supported:
- AMD Athlon™64 (“Clawhammer”).
- AMD Opteron™ (“Sledgehammer”).
- AMD Sempron™.
- AMD Turion™.
- AMD Phenom™.
- All multi-core Intel® Xeon™ processors except Sossaman have EM64T support.
- The single-core Intel® Xeon™ processors “Nocona”, “Irwindale”, “Potomac”, and “Cranford” have - EM64T support.
- All Intel® Core 2 (not Core Duo) and later - processors
- All Intel® Pentium® D processors
- Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using + EM64T support.
- All Intel® Core™ 2 (not Core™ Duo) and later + processors
- All Intel® Core™ i range of processors
- All Intel® Pentium® D processors
- All Intel® Centrino® Duo and Centrino® Pro platforms
- Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron® Ds using the “Cedar Mill” core have EM64T - support.
- Some Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron Ds using + support.
- Some Intel® Pentium® 4s and Celeron® Ds using the “Prescott” core have EM64T support. See the Intel Processor Spec Finder for the definitive answer