Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 15:22:14 -0400 From: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com> To: <steveroo@mothra.bri.hp.com> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anyone adding "support" for Athlons. Message-ID: <007301bf1b30$6ac5eec0$291c453f@kbyanc.alcnet.com>
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> As the title says, is anyone working on support for Athlons, and when > can we expect it to arrive back in -stable ? > > (I can't find anything in the latest versions of sys/i386/i386/identcpu.c) > > Also, what actually needs to be done, it doesn't look difficult to add > code to recognise the cpu, what extra stuff to do may be harder, but I've > not got round to reading the specs anyway. > > (egcs development seems to have athlon support now, I've not tried it and > I've only seen patches so far by searching the mailing list) > > It would be great to find all the benefits of my shiny new hardware > (actually it's beige =( ), if indeed there are that many. (perhaps the > 3DNow stuff would give some advantages!) > > Steve Steve, could you try out the patches in PR i386/14438 and PR i386/14440 and see if your K7 is reported correctly? i386/14440 should cause it to display "Athlon" on boot; i386/14438 should cause all of the K7 feature bits to be reported. Kelly ~kbyanc@posi.net~ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve - http://www.freebsd.org/ Join Team FreeBSD - http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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