Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:42:46 -0400 From: James Kalmadge <kalmadg@banet.net> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Magnwa Spiritseer <magnwa@lionking.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cyrix - > AMD K6-2 300 Message-ID: <378C1546.7C6D95BE@ulster.net> References: <99071310584100.03100@magnwa.lionking.org> <19990713194717.A72332@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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It worked fine for me. My Cyrix motherboard went out and I replaced it with an AMD 350 which came right up. Then I made a new kernel with 586 class. and voila! James Ben Smithurst wrote: > Magnwa Spiritseer wrote: > > > The subject says it all. I'm going from a Cyrix to an AMD processor. The > > cyrix has been quite .. awkward (It's going to become a car MP3 player soon) > > and I was wondering if I need to do a build world , and kernel recompile, and > > such when I get the new AMD chip in? Would it be an issue at all? > > You might have to compile a new kernel. I don't know what class the K6 is > (586 or 686), but my Cyrix chip is recognized as a 486 class. Userland > binaries should be fine, though you may also have to recompile those which > use libkvm. (Not because of the CPU change, but because the new kernel > might be made of difference sources from the old one.) If you don't know > which binaries use libkvm, just rebuild the whole world. > > The easiest way is just to try it with the new chip. If you get "panic: > cpu class not configured", stick the Cyrix back in and build a new > kernel with all classes to see which class the new one is detected as. > If you don't get that panic, everything should be fine. > > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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