Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:17:30 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <200108310117.SAA26272@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:05:44 %2B1200." <000101c131b9$0f97ec50$0a01a8c0@den2>
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"Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> wrote:
> It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD or
> Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience, the
> first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy with VIA chip sets, which are
> commonly used for Athlon boards. It's mainly IDE issues (e.g.
> UDMA-66/100 support).
Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133
chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such
motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the
difference?). For more info, check out:
http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html
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Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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