From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 20 21:02:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09320 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:02:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from quokka.prth.tensor.pgs.com (quokka1.prth.tensor.pgs.com [157.147.224.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09193 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 21:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shocking@ariadne.prth.tensor.pgs.com) Received: from ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (ariadne [157.147.227.36]) by quokka.prth.tensor.pgs.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA22778 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:00:53 +0800 (WST) Received: from ariadne by ariadne.tensor.pgs.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA20186; Thu, 21 May 1998 12:00:47 +0800 Message-Id: <199805210400.MAA20186@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: K6 & PPro specific instructions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 12:00:47 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm a little unclear on this - my K6 reports itself as a 586 class CPU under FreeBSD, but I was wondering if it implemented some of the PPro specific instructions/features. I'm quite happy with it - it's a K6-233, does a make buildworld in 1hr 20m (NOTCL, but with profiled libs, /usr/src mounted noatime, /usr/obj async, 48Mb, 512k cache, 2 SCSI drives hanging off an NCR-875). My old CPU (P5-120) did a make world in 3hrs. Oddly enough, where I used to have occasional hangs and crashes (which seemed hardware related, for a long time I was blaming the memory) it's now solid as a rock. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message