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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


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