From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 23 4:34:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 04:34:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7748637B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 04:34:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13375 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Dec 2000 12:32:42 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:32:42 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Mike Smith , babkin@bellatlantic.net, heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium 4 Message-ID: <20001223143242.C59497@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Luigi Rizzo , Mike Smith , babkin@bellatlantic.net, heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200012222338.eBMNcfj06065@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200012222333.eBMNXFx79651@iguana.aciri.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200012222333.eBMNXFx79651@iguana.aciri.org>; from rizzo@aciri.org on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:33:15PM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > The Linux issue was actually more stupid than that; Linux won't run on a > > CPU it doesn't recognise. FreeBSD will only refuse to run on a CPU it > > recognises as incapable (since that is a much smaller set). > > actually, back in 1.1.5 times, i had a kernel which did not have > cpu I586_CPU in the kernel config file, and it did refuse to > run on a pentium It is still like this - if you do not have support for your CPU *class*, FreeBSD will refuse to boot. However, you do not have to have support for each and every CPU model from this class - a I686_CPU kernel will very happily run on Pentium 4 CPU's. Or am I raving again? :) Feel free to correct any gross errors I've made :) G'luck, Peter -- I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message