From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 23:30:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au [130.95.208.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413F5152C4 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 23:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peters@ee.uwa.edu.au) Received: from eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au (eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au [130.95.208.9]) by swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19491; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:30:18 +0800 (WST) Received: from marshall (marshall.ee.uwa.edu.au [130.95.208.11]) by eeserver.ee.uwa.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA22056; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:30:20 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990727143009.00c23c10@pop.ee.uwa.edu.au> X-Sender: peters@pop.ee.uwa.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:30:09 To: Roy Bettle From: Peter Soumanis Subject: Re: Non-MMX Intel Pentium 200MHz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <379CEE4B.BDF37B8F@criterion-group.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 16:24 26/07/99 -0700, you wrote: >I'm at my wits' end. I have an iWill P55TU motherboard. It can only >handle the P54C family of processors (ie- single-voltage). It's a great >board with on-board SCSI, etc. > >Problem: I have no processor for it. A IDT WinChip2 will give you the required CPU. It has a single volt rail (ie same as Non-MMX cpu's) but gives you MMX and 3DNow! capability. FreeBSD should work fine if you compile the kernel for a 586 family cpu. www.winchip.com Peter ---------------------- Peter Soumanis Computer Systems Officer Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, UWA NEDLANDS WA 6907 Australia Ph: (08) 9380-3110 Fax:(08) 9380-1065 Email: peters@ee.uwa.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message