From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 18: 7:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AA137B406 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:07:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 15ccki-000439-00; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:05:44 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: , Subject: RE: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:05:44 +1200 Message-ID: <000101c131b9$0f97ec50$0a01a8c0@den2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD or Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience, the first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy with VIA chip sets, which are commonly used for Athlon boards. It's mainly IDE issues (e.g. UDMA-66/100 support). Can't recall anything similar for FreeBSD, however. -- Juha :: -----Original Message----- :: From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG :: [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Paul A. Howes :: Sent: Friday, 31 August 2001 12:35 :: To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG :: Subject: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors :: :: :: All- :: :: In the past, I had heard that Linux and FreeBSD didn't work :: well on the :: Athlon processors. Have all of the issues since been :: resolved? Now that :: Tyan has the TigerMP motherboard out for around $200, and :: the 1.2 GHz Athlon :: MP chips are around $160, building a multiprocessor system :: is looking like a :: better and better idea. However, I wanted to first make :: sure that there are :: no problems that I should be aware of. :: :: Thanks! :: :: -- :: Paul A. Howes :: pahowes@fair-ware.com :: :: If you would like my PGP key, send a blank e-mail to :: pgpkey@fair-ware.com :: :: :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :: with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message :: :: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message