Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:25:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dual athlons Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0106072125160.3562-100000@rac5.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200106072037.f57KbkH02719@mass.dis.org>
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Do they still perform better than the regular apic from INTEL though? I mean it IS an EV6 bus. On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mike Smith 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. > > 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
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