From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 6 14:30:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03184 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:30:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03157 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 14:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id XAA11419; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 23:30:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id XAA20077; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 23:05:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980306230547.A20033@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 23:05:47 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: ITG staff Cc: Hardware Mailing list Subject: Re: TX Chipset and more than 64M Ram Mail-Followup-To: ITG staff , Hardware Mailing list References: <199803062031.MAA16543@george.lbl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.90.4i In-Reply-To: <199803062031.MAA16543@george.lbl.gov>; from ITG staff on Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 12:31:02PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4103 AMD-K6 MMX @ 225 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to ITG staff: > the AMD K6 always works on ASUS HX motherboard, however, just the information > reported on the console is wrong. There is the matter of Write Allocation (do I get the term right ?). It is enabled by default by the BIOS I think. > I tested under this environment, the performance is K6-200. Also, the memory > performance is better then under BIOS 205 (the latest one) because -- > that under BIOS 109, the K6 FPU looks like 64-bits, > but under BIOS 205, K6 FPU looks like 32-bits. It is very interesting. But no one uses the BIOS under FreeBSD... What do you call "looks like 64-bits" ? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Mar 1 18:50:39 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message