From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Mar 18 08:32:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03936 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:32:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03902 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by who.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id GAA29427 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 06:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA00953; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:22:07 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:22:05 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Gary Clark II cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K5 Pentium Equivalents In-Reply-To: <199703150015.SAA05823@main.gbdata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > -- > Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company > gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team > Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information > FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii >