From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 6 21:11:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2697737B58F for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA74873; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:41:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:41:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eric Ogren Cc: fmesq@super11.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD Athlon Processor Support. Message-ID: <20000607134133.E74372@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <96034952001@mail.emumail.net> <20000607000141.A6446@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000607000141.A6446@earthlink.net> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 7 June 2000 at 0:01:41 -0400, Eric Ogren wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:45:19PM -0400, fmesq@super11.net wrote: >> >> >> Hi FreeBSD Team, >> >> I've got a AMD Athlon 700 Mhz Processor and I coludn't make a working >> kernel. It works with the generic kernel, but when i compile a specific >> kernel usinf 686 Class processor it gives me a Panic advice. >> I'm usind 686 Class processor 'cause when using the generic kernel, in >> startup, it detects an 686 Class processor, and also load some Pentium Pro >> drivers. >> Thanks every body, > > I'm pretty sure that we treat an Athlon as a 586. These are things you can check on. Felipe did specify that it was reported as a 686 class machine, and he's right. My machine: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (751.79-MHz 686-class CPU) I suppose I could try building a kernel without i585 support, but I'm not going that far to answer a question. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message