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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 03:06:37 -0800
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Martin Hasenbein <mh-freebsd-questions@free.beastie.de>
Cc:        Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>, Ramses van Pinxteren <ramses.van.pinxteren@cmg.nl>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Compiling kernel for AMD processor
Message-ID:  <3C90843D.5070308@owt.com>
References:  <395ABDBC0952D211BB2A00104BB3F93906A1AC23@nl-amv-mail03.cmg.nl> <3C907A13.30908@owt.com> <20020314105013.GG358@irrelevant.org> <20020314115300.A2043@free.beastie.de>

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Martin Hasenbein wrote:

> Simon Dick (simond@irrelevant.org) wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:23:15AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
>>
>>>>What processor type should I select??
>>>>
>>>Dmesg will tell you in the first few lines. I have a couple of K7's 
>>>and a couple of 1600+ XPs. They all think they are 686s. The rest of 
>>>the AMD's  think they are 486's.
>>>
>>Uum, no, I'm pretty sure the K6s think of themselves as i586 cpus :)
>>
> 
> Yep :) I've a K6-2/500 and I had to compile i586 into my kernel.


You have convienced me that is why I added look at your dmesg output 
because it knows. There was a user a couple of weeks ago with a K6 and 
it was panicing at boot with the class I586_CPU.

 
Kent


-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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