Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:26:47 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: James Bishop <James.Bishop@trw.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NexGen Processor Message-ID: <20000424132646.E24816@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250549580.68318-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>; from andrew@ugh.net.au on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 05:50:36AM %2B1000 References: <011401bfae23$93c605e0$3b248ccc@ymp.gov> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004250549580.68318-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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* andrew@ugh.net.au <andrew@ugh.net.au> [000424 13:20] wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, James Bishop wrote:
>
> > I have a NexGen processor. It is a 586 class pentium clone. Will FreeBSD run
> > on it?
>
> If its a true clone then it will run fine.
Er, they may be some issues if FreeBSD doesn't recognize the processor
ID, however looking through the source it seems that we do support it:
i386/identcpu.c: { "NexGen 586", CPUCLASS_386 }, /* CPU_N
so things ought to be fine.
--
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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