From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Mar 18 12:42:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA26730 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:42:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com ([207.113.12.26]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA26713 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01991; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:55:25 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199703181955.NAA01991@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: AMD K5 Pentium Equivalents To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:55:24 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Narvi at "Mar 18, 97 04:22:05 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Narvi wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Gary Clark II wrote: > > > You can run only Intel chips in FreeBSD SMP due to the fact that the others > > (Cyrix and AMD) use a different standard for PIC usage. > > (Please correct if I'm wrong on this) > > This is a bit late reply, but still: > > Could FreeBSD be made to run AMD chips in SMP mode? That is - are the SMP > motherboards capable of running the AMD (and Cyrix chips) in SMP, and the > only thing on the way is the software? Or are different SMP motherboards > required? You would have to change both motherboard AND FreeBSD to run these chips. Does anyone know of any motherboards with the new PIC standard running on it? > Sander Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii