From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 20 12:22:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7303614C11 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 12:22:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kbyanc@alcnet.com) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from kbyanc (ws-41.alcnet.com [63.69.28.41]) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with SMTP id PAA37420; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:22:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kelly Yancey" To: Cc: Subject: Re: Anyone adding "support" for Athlons. Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:22:14 -0400 Message-ID: <007301bf1b30$6ac5eec0$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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) > > 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!) > > Steve Steve, could you try out the patches in PR i386/14438 and PR i386/14440 and see if your K7 is reported correctly? i386/14440 should cause it to display "Athlon" on boot; i386/14438 should cause all of the K7 feature bits to be reported. Kelly ~kbyanc@posi.net~ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve - http://www.freebsd.org/ Join Team FreeBSD - http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message