From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 11:23:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4447714FE5 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:23:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA75982; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:23:08 GMT Message-ID: <36D6F49C.8492F1DB@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:23:08 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joe \\" Marcus\ " Clarke" Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: Pentium III support? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" - 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