From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 1 21:58:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04ED737B43C for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 21:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdinolt@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net ([63.199.30.173]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0GCO00E49Z4SLN@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 May 2001 21:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:58:04 -0700 From: "George W. Dinolt" Subject: Re: Duron unsupported???!?!? To: aaron@swcp.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <3AEF93DC.142D617@pacbell.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been running a 750 MHz Duron for several months now on 4.2, 4.3 and -current with no problems (except sometimes recently on -current, but that is not the hardware's fault.) The first part of my dmesg is ----------------------------- Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 28 21:10:17 PDT 2001 root@dinolt1.bingdrive.org:/tmp/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DINOLT1 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 750031882 Hz CPU: AMD Duron(tm) Processor (750.03-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x630 Stepping = 0 Features=0x183f9ff AMD Features=0xc0440000<,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory = 201261056 (196544K bytes) avail memory = 191918080 (187420K bytes) ... ----------------------------- I have built and run with GENERIC kernels as well as specialized ones. The top of my config file looks as follows: ----------------------- machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident XXXXX maxusers 32 options NO_F00F_HACK options NO_MEMORY_HOLE options CPU_WT_ALLOC # # BLKDEV_IOSIZE sets the default block size used in user block # device I/O. Note that this value will be overriden by the label # when specifying a block device from a label with a non-0 # partition blocksize. The default is PAGE_SIZE. # options BLKDEV_IOSIZE=8192 options PQ_CACHESIZE=512 # color for 512k/16k cache ... -------------------------- I am not sure whether one should use the PQ_CACHESIZE or not and if this is the "right" value, but it all works for me. I set the following in my make.conf CPUTYPE=k7 but this is almost certainly not necessary either. If you are running with a GENERIC kernel, then the above should work. If you can't get the GENERIC kernel to work, then I would wonder if there are problems elsewhere, something not set properly on your motherboard maybe? My (cheap) Transcend TS-AKT4 motherboard uses the VIA chip set. I don't know what other chip sets might support the Duron. I am only using PC100 memory. With my drives, I get a 1hr and 5 min make world so I am not complaining too much. I would be happy to send you my complete config file, if you think that would help. Good luck. George Dinolt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message