Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:57:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix MediaGX processors Message-ID: <199904240457.VAA03260@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:10:31 PDT." <199904232310.QAA13904@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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> "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> writes: > > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > > > Does anybody have any experiences running FreeBSD on a Cyrix MediaGX > > > processor with FreeBSD? These are the ones with the video/sound > > > capabilities integrated into the CPU. > > > > Built into the CPU? Thats pretty impressive.... > > Yeah, yeah; cute. Integrated into the same chip as the CPU. > > I'm also interested in the answer to this question. Yes, "mixed". You are very much dependant on the quality of the BIOS supporting the CPU, as many things (most significantly, text output) are emulated in software. You will want to evaluate the actual platform that you are looking at using before committing to it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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