From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 14:44:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA06142 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.184]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA06110 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:44:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA00280; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 14:44:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: faried nawaz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd k5-p100. In-Reply-To: <27883.842914848@snake.cs.uidaho.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, faried nawaz wrote: > I'm considering buying an AMD K5-P100 (or better); is it recognized under > FreeBSD (2.1.5 or -current) as a Pentium-class processor? My guess will be that either: 1) It'll be detected as a AMD K5 or 2) It'll be detected as a 486. #2 is the case with the 5x86 chips. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major