From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 24 12:57:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BFD37B57F for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3OKQl704880; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:26:47 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: James Bishop , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NexGen Processor Message-ID: <20000424132646.E24816@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <011401bfae23$93c605e0$3b248ccc@ymp.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@ugh.net.au on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:50:36AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * andrew@ugh.net.au [000424 13:20] wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, James Bishop wrote: > > > I have a NexGen processor. It is a 586 class pentium clone. Will FreeBSD run > > on it? > > If its a true clone then it will run fine. Er, they may be some issues if FreeBSD doesn't recognize the processor ID, however looking through the source it seems that we do support it: i386/identcpu.c: { "NexGen 586", CPUCLASS_386 }, /* CPU_N so things ought to be fine. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message