Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:00:53 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mathew & Lori Taylor <connecte@sprynet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Overdrive processor. Message-ID: <19981015130053.D503@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36256456.E79DA04C@sprynet.com>; from Mathew & Lori Taylor on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:56:22PM -0400 References: <36256456.E79DA04C@sprynet.com>
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On Wednesday, 14 October 1998 at 22:56:22 -0400, Mathew & Lori Taylor wrote: > I have the opportunity to replace a 486DX33 w/ an Intel Overdrive 83Mhz > chip. First of all, will FreeBSD even recognize the chip; Yes. > next, do I use 486 or 586 as my kernel ID? What kind of OverDrive is it? The easiest way is to leave support for both processors in the kernel, and see what the kernel thinks. Unless this processor is *very* cheap, it's not worth changing. You may find it cheaper to buy, say, a used P5/66 board. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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