From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 7 13:27:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E57637B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f57KbkH02719; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106072037.f57KbkH02719@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kenneth Wayne Culver Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual athlons In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:18:13 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:37:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message