From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 10 11:18:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17501 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17491 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04362; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:18:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Ronny Jordalen cc: Dmitry Morozovsky , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM/Cyrix PR200+ In-Reply-To: <19970910153802.17922@econ.uib.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Ronny Jordalen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 04:27:40PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Yesterday i've set up 2.2.2-R on IBM (Cyrix) PR200+ and was very surprized > > when it were recognized as 486DX (rather quick, though -- kernel compile in > > less than 3.5 mins on IDE :) > > > That's strange... I myself just installed FreeBSD on a machine running the > same CPU, and FreeBSD identified it as Pentium Pro class processor. I first > tried setting Cpu to 486-type too, as Windows does infact recognize it as > a 486. But then kernel would panic. > I think the cpu types are now different for anything above 2.2.2R (correct me if I am wrong though)... This only is important if you recompile the kernel. 2.2.2R Cyrix 6x86/L - 486 Cyrix 6x86MX - 586 AMD K5 - 586 AMD K6 - 586 2.2.2 SNAP (i.e. 8/31/97 or newer) Cyrix 6x86/L - 686 (as reported) Cyrix 6x86MX - 686 AMD K5 - 586 (?) AMD K6 - 686 (?) ? = I did not test it. > > So, my question: is there any "red points" in guidelines for setting up > > FreeBSD on such system? (MB is ASUS T2P4, PIO4 IDE disk) > > > Don't really know. My installation went flawlessly, apart from the above > mentioned problem. I have the 2,5x66 version of the CPU btw, running off > an Asus TX97-E MB. And running 2.2.2 as well. > > > Please CC answer to my email. Thanx for cooperation. > > > > Happy FreeBSDing :))) > > Aren't we always? :-) > > > D.Marck > > ======================================================================== > > === D.Marck --- Dmitry Morozovsky --- marck@rinet.ru --- Wild Woozle === > > ======================================================================== > > > > -- > > --Ronny > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoppers Network (Support) AMD K5/K6s, Cyrix 6x86, Intel Pentiums/Pro Phone: (415) 759-8584 Email: howard@shoppersnet.com ==============================> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~