Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:57:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108310054590.8890-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200108310322.f7V3M6177059@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Dave Tweten wrote:
> pahowes@fair-ware.com said:
> >In the past, I had heard that Linux and FreeBSD didn't work well on
> >the Athlon processors. Have all of the issues since been resolved?
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> >Now that Tyan has the TigerMP motherboard out for around $200, and the
> >1.2 GHz Athlon MP chips are around $160, building a multiprocessor
> >system is looking like a better and better idea.
>
> The "multiprocessor" part of this question seems to me to be getting
> missed in all the "Problem, what problem?" replies.
"multiprocessor" wasn't part of the question.
Sorry, I don't know about SMP AMD systems and FreeBSD. I am
curious, though, as Gigabyte is rumored to soon be releasing a dual-
Athlon motherboard, and the newer Athlons coming out soon (if they're
not already out) are supposed to run significantly cooler than the one
I now have.
Only deal-killer for me would be the Irongate chipset's
unfriendliness with the XFree86 Radeon driver. I bought that card to
play around with OpenGL, and I can't do it. :-(
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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