From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 20:31:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24039 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA24016 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:31:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA03902; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:00:54 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA00633; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:00:53 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981015130053.D503@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:00:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mathew & Lori Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Overdrive processor. References: <36256456.E79DA04C@sprynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <36256456.E79DA04C@sprynet.com>; from Mathew & Lori Taylor on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:56:22PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 22:56:22 -0400, Mathew & Lori Taylor wrote: > I have the opportunity to replace a 486DX33 w/ an Intel Overdrive 83Mhz > chip. First of all, will FreeBSD even recognize the chip; Yes. > next, do I use 486 or 586 as my kernel ID? What kind of OverDrive is it? The easiest way is to leave support for both processors in the kernel, and see what the kernel thinks. Unless this processor is *very* cheap, it's not worth changing. You may find it cheaper to buy, say, a used P5/66 board. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message