From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 5:21:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 05:21:09 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.tue.nl (mailhost.tue.nl [131.155.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D21937B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 05:21:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes.tue.nl (hermes.tue.nl [131.155.2.46]) by mailhost.tue.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eBNDL7S14751 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:21:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from deathstar (t-27-122.athome.tue.nl [131.155.228.122]) by hermes.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774292E802 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:21:06 +0100 (CET) From: "Marco van de Voort" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:21:06 +0100 Subject: Re: Pentium 4 Message-ID: <3A44B4D2.13709.5F439B@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20001223143242.C59497@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <200012222333.eBMNXFx79651@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: marcov@toad.stack.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > The Linux issue was actually more stupid than that; Linux won't run on a > > > CPU it doesn't recognise. FreeBSD will only refuse to run on a CPU it > > > recognises as incapable (since that is a much smaller set). > > > > actually, back in 1.1.5 times, i had a kernel which did not have > > cpu I586_CPU in the kernel config file, and it did refuse to > > run on a pentium > > It is still like this - if you do not have support for your CPU *class*, > FreeBSD will refuse to boot. However, you do not have to have support > for each and every CPU model from this class - a I686_CPU kernel will > very happily run on Pentium 4 CPU's. > > Or am I raving again? :) Feel free to correct any gross errors I've made :) Afaik yes :-) IIRC the problem is that P4 reports itself back as family 15 or something like that, not 6. ? Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl or marco@freepascal.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message