From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 10:34:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1459237B401 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6483843F93 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h4EHY0UO006868; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.9/8.12.3/Submit) id h4EHY0dP006867; Wed, 14 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Lesly Weyts Message-ID: <20030514173400.GA1307@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Centrino X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:34:04 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:07:31PM +0200, Lesly Weyts wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I wanna buy a new laptop with a Pentium M (the newest processor from Inte= l=20 > especially for mobile computers) and install freeBSD on it with KDE. Is= =20 > that possible ... I've heard that the architecture of the new CPU is=20 > different and that Unix/Linux not run on those processors. Is that true o= r=20 > ... and if it is true ... will there soon be support for the=20 > centrino-platform. I hope it because I need mobile computers and I love t= he=20 > fact that I can work longer with a Pentium M. The Pentium M is entierly compatable with other modern x86 processors. A friend of mine works for a company that is building embedded boards with it that run unmodified x86 Linux. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+wn4HXY6L6fI4GtQRAuMCAJ4melfjkRzD2vteU9eAgbCqjgLKbgCggoC8 /nGoZyEquT5xPTOzQSdyYOw= =eWfs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--