From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 13:31:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EC337B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:31:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pyroxene.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D3243F3F for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: from pegmatite.sentex.ca (pegmatite.sentex.ca [192.168.42.92]) by pyroxene.sentex.ca (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h52KVg8C021710; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:31:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from damian@sentex.net) Received: by pegmatite.sentex.ca (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 353CC170B8; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:31:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:31:42 -0400 From: Damian Gerow To: "J. Seth Henry" Message-ID: <20030602203142.GB807@sentex.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Key-Id: 0xB841F142 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7C1 E1D1 EC06 7C86 AF7C 57E6 173D 9CF6 B841 F142 X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: By Sentex Communications (lava/20020517) cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Via C3 support under FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 20:31:45 -0000 Thus spake J. Seth Henry (jshamlet@comcast.net) [02/06/03 16:01]: > Also, most modern CPU's use the 686 cputype, not just the Pentium Pro's. > Pentium 3 and Pentium 4 both use it, as well as the AMD Duron/Athlon > CPU's (and I'm sure the latest cores are no different) I believe the 586 > class CPU's were retired with the K6-2/3 series, and the first gen Pentium > processors, ending with the P5-266. Yes, I figured as much. My question stemmed from the fact that the arch is labelled as 'pentiumpro', and I'm definitely out of my comfort level talking about the different levels of pentium and what came first and what came next and who does what and where and how. One thing I haven't tried is leaving out the I586_CPU in the kernel config and seeing if that will result in any changes. Hopefully I won't be shooting myself in the foot -- just compiling right now. (It looks like I just can't set CPUTYPE=i686 in make.conf at this point.) Out of curiousity, is anyone working on any C3-specific optimizations (i.e. CPUTYPE=c3)? > BTW - I figure you must have the M10000 everyone is tooting about. How > well does FreeBSD support the video subsystem on that board? Actually, I don't. The big thing about the M10000 is the Nehemiah core, which I'm also in the midst of picking up. I can post word on it if I can actually find a retailer up here in Canada. I'm pretty impressed with the Ezra core, and since this box is just a home firewall, I don't much care about the lack of a full-speed FPU or any SSE or what have you - so long as it can pass packets faster and do SSH sessions smoother than a Pentium 100, I'm happy.