From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 22: 1: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D193737B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7V4vYX08986 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:57:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:57:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors In-Reply-To: <200108310322.f7V3M6177059@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message