Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 14:00:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dual athlons Message-ID: <20010607210052.DE5AF380C@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010607162355.X1832@superconductor.rush.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> [010607 16:18] wrote: > > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > > FreeBSD 5 will support it. > > Rumor has it that it booted without a hitch when it was tested. Not rumor, it is definate. At least 4.2+ and 5.0 work without a hitch. In fact, they work better than most intel or serverworks chipset based systems as they comply better with the MP spec. One gotcha.. Make sure that the bios is set to 'MP SPEC 1.4' (not 1.1) and that 'PCI USE APIC' is on. The AMD developer boards (Tyan Thunder K7, which went on sale on Tuesday this week) have had various different sets of defaults for these with different bios revs, so check them. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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