From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 18: 0:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2443837B406 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7V0w0v14429; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: pahowes@fair-ware.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010830175800R.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:58:00 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 30 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 I don't know where you heard this from, but you heard entirely wrong. FreeBSD has always worked very well on AMD and Intel processors. My personal machine has been a K7/900 for a long time now (Slot-A even) - Jordan From: "Paul A. Howes" Subject: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:35:05 -0400 > 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. > > Thanks! > > -- > Paul A. Howes > pahowes@fair-ware.com > > If you would like my PGP key, send a blank e-mail to pgpkey@fair-ware.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message