From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 17:52:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from helios.soupnazi.org (helios.soupnazi.org [64.81.252.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A9937B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mij@soupnazi.org) Received: by helios.soupnazi.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9E7E43222; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:49:02 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: "Paul A. Howes" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <20010830174902.A2931@helios.soupnazi.org> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 at 20:35:05 -0400, Paul A. Howes wrote: > All- > > In the past, I had heard that Linux and FreeBSD didn't work well on > the Athlon processors. Have all of the issues since been resolved? > Now that Tyan has the TigerMP motherboard out for around $200, and the > 1.2 GHz Athlon MP chips are around $160, building a multiprocessor > system is looking like a better and better idea. However, I wanted to > first make sure that there are no problems that I should be aware of. Don't believe everything that you hear. FreeBSD works fine with Athlon processors. - jim -- jim mock tech writer | iXsystems, Inc. http://soupnazi.org/ work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message