From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 9 20:01:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01001 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from camel14.mindspring.com (camel14.mindspring.com [207.69.200.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00996 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from phoenix.phoenixos.com (pool-207-205-242-59.atln.grid.net [207.205.242.59]) by camel14.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20483; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 22:59:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980808182200.E14475@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:00:24 -0400 (EDT) Organization: Virginia Tech From: John Baldwin To: Greg Lehey Subject: RE: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?) Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , John Baldwin , dg@root.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 08-Aug-98 Greg Lehey wrote: > (following up to -hackers) > > On Thursday, 6 August 1998 at 23:44:39 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >> >> I just looked at the patch. Other than some KNF style bugs, it seems >> okay. >> I don't have any AMD K5/K6 machines, however, so I can't test it and won't >> be committing it. >> If it could get wider circulation - perhaps by posting a note to hackers >> asking for testers, then I think there would be less hesitation in getting >> it committed. > > I've grabbed the code and will try it out and report. > > Greg One note, I just found out that this will only work on on certain chipsets (I think Intel Triton TX, but I could be wrong, so don't quote me on that.) John Baldwin -- jobaldwi@vt.edu -- jbaldwin@freedomnet.com -- ---- http://www.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ ---- "I waited for the Lord on high/I waited and He heard my cry." - Petra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message