From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 15: 2:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2928737B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:02:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA05189; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:01:57 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:01:57 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Marc W , Kyle , Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010417113808.A125@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:36:06AM -0700, Marc W wrote: > > > > ah, but the question is: will FreeBSD work with the new DUAL AMD > > motherboards coming out, or does the logic on those require kernel > > tweaking? > > It may require some tweaking; I don't think anyone's seen an SMP AMD > mobo yet. > > Kris The other question is, will the AMD Athlon be a whole lot faster than a equivelent Intel PIII? and what about P4 support? or is that really worst than a PIII and AMD in terms of performance? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message