Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:23:08 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: "Joe \\" Marcus\ " Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pentium III support? Message-ID: <36D6F49C.8492F1DB@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902261413350.20784-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke wrote: > I just bought a Pentium III 450 (call me crazy), and I'm curious is a 686 > CPU config would work for it. Anyone in core devel look over the > architecture yet? Should it be supported? Thanks. > > Joe Clarke A P3 should work if you treat it as a P2 (as that's all it really is at the core level) + A few new instructions. Best thing to do is try it, and let us know! :-) FreeBSD may not know it's ID yet, but it should still know enough to figure out it's an "i686 something" <g> - if you post the output of the CPU ID dmesg, someone can make sure it does ID it properly... Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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