Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:23:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Stephen Roome <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone adding "support" for Athlons. Message-ID: <199910201523.IAA00886@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:15:30 BST." <Pine.HPX.4.10.9910201542000.3877-100000@mothra.bri.hp.com>
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> > As the title says, is anyone working on support for Athlons, and when can we > expect it to arrive back in -stable ? > > (I can't find anything in the latest versions of sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c) You should try looking harder: CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (499.03-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x612 Stepping = 2 Features=0x81f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT ,MMX> AMD Features=0xc0400000<<b22>,<b30>,3DNow!> ... Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > Also, what actually needs to be done, it doesn't look difficult to add code to > recognise the cpu, what extra stuff to do may be harder, but I've not got round > to reading the specs anyway. > > (egcs development seems to have athlon support now, I've not tried it and I've > only seen patches so far by searching the mailing list) > > It would be great to find all the benefits of my shiny new hardware (actually > it's beige =( ), if indeed there are that many. (perhaps the 3DNow stuff would > give some advantages!) I suggest you go read the documentation before you come back. No offense, just a caution to check more carefully first. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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