From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 29 10:58:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA26228 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA26221 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:58:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xFk3S-00018A-00; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:56:22 -0700 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Tony Kimball cc: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, toj@gorilla.net, freebsd-hardware@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: supermicro p6sns/p6sas In-Reply-To: <199709291505.KAA25150@compound.east.sun.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Tony Kimball wrote: ... > : I'm little dubious about how well AMD > : can make it work. K6, due to bugs, was unable to run FreeBSD reliably up > : until a few weeks ago (see archives about which stepping are known to > : work, and which are not). > > And we all know that Intel has had no major Pentium or PPro bugs? Nothing that affected FreeBSD anyhow, and FreeBSD uses a wide variety of features. > (BIG smiley face on that one.) Frankly I don't see any reasonable > argument to the effect that AMD or Cyrix are less technically > competent than Intel -- quite the contrary, given track records (and > the fact that the AMD/Cyrix task is much more difficult than the > Intel task). Intel's real competition is not AMD and Cyrix, but DEC, Sparc (Sun), MIPS (SGI), and Motorola/IBM. > : Also, you can use socket 8 processors in a slot 1 with an adapter. > > Where can I learn about this? I'm not sure. I've seen pictures of it, and the PII motherboards I've seen have instructions for installing and using the socket 8 -> slot 1 adapter. Tom