Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:21:06 +0100 From: "Marco van de Voort" <marcov@stack.nl> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium 4 Message-ID: <3A44B4D2.13709.5F439B@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20001223143242.C59497@ringworld.oblivion.bg> References: <200012222333.eBMNXFx79651@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800
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> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > The Linux issue was actually more stupid than that; Linux won't run on a > > > CPU it doesn't recognise. FreeBSD will only refuse to run on a CPU it > > > recognises as incapable (since that is a much smaller set). > > > > actually, back in 1.1.5 times, i had a kernel which did not have > > cpu I586_CPU in the kernel config file, and it did refuse to > > run on a pentium > > It is still like this - if you do not have support for your CPU *class*, > FreeBSD will refuse to boot. However, you do not have to have support > for each and every CPU model from this class - a I686_CPU kernel will > very happily run on Pentium 4 CPU's. > > Or am I raving again? :) Feel free to correct any gross errors I've made :) Afaik yes :-) IIRC the problem is that P4 reports itself back as family 15 or something like that, not 6. ? Marco van de Voort (MarcoV@Stack.nl or marco@freepascal.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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