Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 00:39:57 -0500 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Karl Pielorz' <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, "Joe \\\" \"Marcus \" \" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Pentium III support? Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5F27@site2s1>
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Now my understanding of it was, that due to the additional registers added to the chip, that an operating system would need to be upgraded to properly work with the PIII. But as I think about it, wouldn't this only apply if you were using software that was aware of, and used these new registers? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl Pielorz [SMTP:kpielorz@tdx.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 2:23 PM > To: Joe \" "Marcus " " Clarke > Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List > Subject: Re: Pentium III support? > > 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" <g> - 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
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