Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:48:22 -0800 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/33582: i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support Message-ID: <200201101548.g0AFmMq01766@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1e3d1e23rx.d1e@localhost.localdomain> References: <200201100020.g0A0K2d41468@freefall.freebsd.org> <1e3d1e23rx.d1e@localhost.localdomain>
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If memory serves me right, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > > > <para>&os; for the i386 runs on a wide variety of > > <quote>PC compatible</quote> machines.</para> > > How about "IBM-PC-compatible" or (shudder) "WinTel-PC-comptatible"? > Some of us still like to imagine that PC only means "Personal Computer". OK. Shame on me for forgetting this. :-p > > 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, > > Pentium 4, and variants thereof. All AMD processors are also > > Should "Xeon" be added to that list, or is that a variant? I thought of it as a variant, but I guess we could mention it by name. > > <para>Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA > > (<quote>Microchannel</quote>), AGP, and PCI expansion busses are > > supported to varying degrees (in particular, MCA-based machines > > enjoy more limited support than the others). Symmetric > > multi-processor (SMP) motherboards are generally supported.</para> > > I wonder if SMP MBs are segregated there for a reason. Is "generally > supported" different than "supported to varying degrees"? Maybe it'd > be better to remove the last sentence and change the first to something > like "Motherboards with symmetric multi-processor support and those with > ISA, VLB, EISA, AGP, PCI, and MCA expansion busses are usually > supported, but there are exceptions. Usually this is because of MB or > BIOS bugs with no work-around (yet), but othertimes (eg, MCA MBs) nobody > has had sufficient interest to support the MB or some of its features. > It is best to check FreeBSD forum archives or ask." Hmmm. SMP was intended to be orthogonal to the list of expansion busses. I was just trying to make the statement that there's support for i386 SMP. Pointing the users to the mailing lists is probably a good idea in any case. Thanks! Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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