From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 7 14: 0:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E41F37B405 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f57L0rM55683 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5AF380C; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual athlons In-Reply-To: <20010607162355.X1832@superconductor.rush.net> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:00:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010607210052.DE5AF380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> 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 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kenneth Wayne Culver [010607 16:18] wrote: > > 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. > > Rumor has it that it booted without a hitch when it was tested. Not rumor, it is definate. At least 4.2+ and 5.0 work without a hitch. In fact, they work better than most intel or serverworks chipset based systems as they comply better with the MP spec. One gotcha.. Make sure that the bios is set to 'MP SPEC 1.4' (not 1.1) and that 'PCI USE APIC' is on. The AMD developer boards (Tyan Thunder K7, which went on sale on Tuesday this week) have had various different sets of defaults for these with different bios revs, so check them. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message