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Subject: Does FreeBSD support kernel mode setting on Intel Haswell?
From: Neel Chauhan <neelwebs@gmail.com>
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Dear freebsd-x11 mailing list,
I am assembling a new PC soon and want to know if FreeBSD 9.1 supports
kernel mode setting on Intel's new Haswell CPUs. How well is it
supported? Am I better off buying a nVidia card to use FreeBSD?
Thanks,
Neel