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From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU>
To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Non-Intel CPUs and FreeBSD.
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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> 
> Is anyone using any of the AMD/Cyrix CPUs with FreeBSD successfully ?
> 
> And more importantly, is it possible to use the CPUs in a multi CPU
> configuration under -current (or at all) ?

I think to use SMP with OpenPic you need some kind of chipset that 
supports OpenPIC and so far none are available.  Maybe AMD's 640 will do 
it.  Otherwise gotta use a Pentium with Intel chipsets.


> 
> Darren
>