Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <jclarke@cisco.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pentium III support? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9902261433130.19483-100000@rtp-cse-185.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <36D6F49C.8492F1DB@tdx.co.uk>
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I will let the list know. Thanks for the quick response. Joe -- Joe Clarke, CE | | Customer Support Engineer ||||| ||||| Phone: (919) 472-2867 ..:|||||||||::|||||||||:.. Email: jclarke@cisco.com c i s c o S y s t e m s ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > 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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