From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 12:02:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00706 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00687 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id UAA08129; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 20:02:04 +0100 (BST) To: Arthur Krewat cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: pentium pro cpu's In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jul 1996 12:14:08 EDT." <31D94AD0.6252@fairchild.lmco.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 20:02:03 +0100 Message-ID: <8127.836334123@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Arthur Krewat wrote in message ID <31D94AD0.6252@fairchild.lmco.com>: > Are Pentium Pro cpu's supported under FreeBSD 2.1 or higher? > > I am considering buying one for home, but I only run FreeBSD! You don't need any special support (unless you want a nice probe message for the processor type). FreeBSD 2.1 works fine on PPro machines to the best of my knowledge, and recent -stable versions even better :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info