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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:22:05 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD K5 Pentium Equivalents
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.970318161851.873A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <199703150015.SAA05823@main.gbdata.com>

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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Gary Clark II wrote:

> Steven P. Donegan wrote:
[snip]
> 
> You can run only Intel chips in FreeBSD SMP due to the fact that the others
> (Cyrix and AMD) use a different standard for PIC usage.
> (Please correct if I'm wrong on this)
> 

This is a bit late reply, but still:

Could FreeBSD be made to run AMD chips in SMP mode? That is - are the SMP
motherboards capable of running the AMD (and Cyrix chips) in SMP, and the
only thing on the way is the software? Or are different SMP motherboards
required?

	Sander

> 
> Gary
> 
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