From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 29 22:12:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA08798 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08785 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net (root@mindbender.serv.net [205.153.153.98]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03863; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:12:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA06073; Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707300511.WAA06073@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mike Roth , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: K6 In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Jul 97 15:44:54 -0700. <10175.870216294@time.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:11:59 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Yes, by all accounts the K6 has some problems. Check out the back >issues of freebsd-hardware at: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/mailing-lists/archive/ >for more information. Or rather, there is the potential for problems. There are some who claim to be using them without any problems. And there are some who are not able to make them work well at all. >> I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 >> processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with >> the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the >> K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------