From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 18:20:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from msgbas2.cos.agilent.com (msgbas2x.cos.agilent.com [192.25.240.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A8037B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:20:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrylo@soco.agilent.com) Received: from msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (msgrel1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.77]) by msgbas2.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BC31151 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:17:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (mina.soco.agilent.com [141.121.54.157]) by msgrel1.cos.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C69E440 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 19:17:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mina.soco.agilent.com (darrylo@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mina.soco.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3 SMKit7.1.1_Agilent) with ESMTP id SAA26272 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108310117.SAA26272@mina.soco.agilent.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:05:44 +1200." <000101c131b9$0f97ec50$0a01a8c0@den2> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:17:30 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Juha Saarinen" wrote: > It's probably not the Athlon CPU that's the issue for either FreeBSD or > Linux, but the motherboard chip sets. From personal experience, the > first Linux 2.4 kernels weren't very happy with VIA chip sets, which are > commonly used for Athlon boards. It's mainly IDE issues (e.g. > UDMA-66/100 support). Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the difference?). For more info, check out: http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@soco.agilent.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message