From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 11:35:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rtp-cse-185.cisco.com (rtp-cse-185.cisco.com [161.44.20.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8603F14FB2 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:35:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jclarke@cisco.com) Received: from localhost (jclarke@localhost) by rtp-cse-185.cisco.com (8.8.5/CA/950118) with ESMTP id OAA23548; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:34:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: Karl Pielorz Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: Pentium III support? In-Reply-To: <36D6F49C.8492F1DB@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I will let the list know. Thanks for the quick response. Joe -- Joe Clarke, CE | | Customer Support Engineer ||||| ||||| Phone: (919) 472-2867 ..:|||||||||::|||||||||:.. Email: jclarke@cisco.com c i s c o S y s t e m s ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote: > > > I just bought a Pentium III 450 (call me crazy), and I'm curious is a 686 > > CPU config would work for it. Anyone in core devel look over the > > architecture yet? Should it be supported? Thanks. > > > > Joe Clarke > > A P3 should work if you treat it as a P2 (as that's all it really is at the > core level) + A few new instructions. Best thing to do is try it, and let us > know! :-) FreeBSD may not know it's ID yet, but it should still know enough > to figure out it's an "i686 something" - if you post the output of the CPU > ID dmesg, someone can make sure it does ID it properly... > > Regards, > > Karl > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message