From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 30 11:50:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA24216 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA24209 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA09739; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Roth cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 In-Reply-To: <33DE4C19.BDAC5A34@acm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Mike Roth wrote: > I am planing to upgrade my system to an ASUS TX97 board with an AMD K6 > processor. I know that some operating systems have had problems with > the K6 chip. If anyone knows whether FreeBSD has any problems with the > K6 please email me at miker@acm.org . There is a discussion going on as to possible bugs in the K6 (and potentially K5) that causes problems with FreeBSD. The safe bet would be with Intel at the moment. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo