From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 31 5:20:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BFB37B403 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vpn87.ece.cmu.edu (ANNEX-3.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.3]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7V196P20823; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:09:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:09:01 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: "Paul A. Howes" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <66040000.999220137@vpn87.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010830174902.A2931@helios.soupnazi.org> References: <20010830174902.A2931@helios.soupnazi.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 Thursday, August 30, 2001 17:49:02 -0700, Jim Mock wrote: +----- | Don't believe everything that you hear. FreeBSD works fine with Athlon | processors. +--->8 Indeed it does: vpn87:14997 Z$ ssh rushlight uptime 9:02PM up 51 days, 4:12, 1 user, load averages: 1.85, 1.54, 1.38 (It'd be longer except that I rebuilt the kernel.) For what it's worth, ECE has a handful of Athlons running SuSE Linux 7.0/7.1 with no problems. We'd have more, but there is something to be said for Intel donating lots of machines to the department.... Incidentally, Pentium IVs have been giving us most of our grief (with Linux, naturally). -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message