Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:37:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual athlons Message-ID: <200106072037.f57KbkH02719@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:18:13 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106071617190.22689-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>
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> Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual
> athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless
> FreeBSD 5 will support it.
FreeBSD works just fine on the dual K7 evaluation systems that AMD have
been shipping around. It seems that they wimped out and licensed Intel's
APIC design/interface, presumably because Microsoft wouldn't add OpenAPIC
support to NT, so the boards look just like "ordinary" SMP x86 systems.
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