From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 10 7:48:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F8537B416; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020110154822.EZNS10199.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:48:22 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0AFmMq01766; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200201101548.g0AFmMq01766@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/33582: i386 Release notes make no mention of AMD/Cyrix Processor support In-reply-to: <1e3d1e23rx.d1e@localhost.localdomain> References: <200201100020.g0A0K2d41468@freefall.freebsd.org> <1e3d1e23rx.d1e@localhost.localdomain> Comments: In-reply-to swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) message dated "09 Jan 2002 21:06:42 -0800." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:48:22 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If memory serves me right, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > "Bruce A. Mah" writes: > > > &os; for the i386 runs on a wide variety of > > PC compatible machines. > > 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. > > Motherboards using the ISA, VLB, EISA, MCA > > (Microchannel), 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. > > 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