Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 12:33:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Baldwin <jobaldwi@mindspring.com>, dg@root.com Subject: Re: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?) Message-ID: <19980810123341.X11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980809230024.jobaldwi@vt.edu>; from John Baldwin on Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:00:24PM -0400 References: <19980808182200.E14475@freebie.lemis.com> <XFMail.980809230024.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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On Sunday, 9 August 1998 at 23:00:24 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > 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. > > 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.) As the title indicates, this specific tweak only works on AMD K5 stepping 4 and above, and all AMD K6s. I've posted a followup. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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