From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 18:24: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-57-209.knology.net [24.214.57.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D95837B408 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:24:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7V1Lew91332; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:21:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200108310121.f7V1Lew91332@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: pahowes@fair-ware.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors In-reply-to: Message from Jordan Hubbard of "Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:58:00 PDT." <20010830175800R.jkh@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:21:40 -0500 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 Jordan Hubbard writes: > 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) No kidding. FreeBSD ran perfectly on even the short lived NexGen CPU. Before AMD bought NexGen lock, stock, and barrel, then dismissed all but the core 20 or so who designed the chip. Turned them loose inside AMD over their existing CPU designers and the result (so far) has lead to the Athlon. Linux had some problems with the NexGen. Maybe Linux had problems with the Athlon? I can't say not knowing. I have an Asus A7V and Athlon 800. What problems I've had are the BIOS's fault, not FreeBSD's. BIOS was so stupid it had to be told to reserve IRQ 4 and 3 for serial ports. OTOH its nice to know they were reassignable for other uses. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message