Re: dual athlons
I guess it won't be a waste of money then. :-) On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: dual athlons > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:18:13 -0400 (EDT) > > > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > > FreeBSD 5 will support it. > > Both FreeBSD 4 and 5 already support it. > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: dual athlons
Do they still perform better than the regular apic from INTEL though? I mean it IS an EV6 bus. On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > > FreeBSD 5 will support it. > > FreeBSD works just fine on the dual K7 evaluation systems that AMD have > been shipping around. It seems that they wimped out and licensed Intel's > APIC design/interface, presumably because Microsoft wouldn't add OpenAPIC > support to NT, so the boards look just like "ordinary" SMP x86 systems. > > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] >V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: dual athlons
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Kenneth Wayne Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010607 16:18] wrote: > > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > > FreeBSD 5 will support it. > > Rumor has it that it booted without a hitch when it was tested. Not rumor, it is definate. At least 4.2+ and 5.0 work without a hitch. In fact, they work better than most intel or serverworks chipset based systems as they comply better with the MP spec. One gotcha.. Make sure that the bios is set to 'MP SPEC 1.4' (not 1.1) and that 'PCI USE APIC' is on. The AMD developer boards (Tyan Thunder K7, which went on sale on Tuesday this week) have had various different sets of defaults for these with different bios revs, so check them. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: dual athlons
From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dual athlons Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:18:13 -0400 (EDT) > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > FreeBSD 5 will support it. Both FreeBSD 4 and 5 already support it. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: dual athlons
> Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > FreeBSD 5 will support it. FreeBSD works just fine on the dual K7 evaluation systems that AMD have been shipping around. It seems that they wimped out and licensed Intel's APIC design/interface, presumably because Microsoft wouldn't add OpenAPIC support to NT, so the boards look just like "ordinary" SMP x86 systems. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: dual athlons
* Kenneth Wayne Culver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010607 16:18] wrote: > Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual > athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless > FreeBSD 5 will support it. Rumor has it that it booted without a hitch when it was tested. -- -Alfred Perlstein [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
dual athlons
Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless FreeBSD 5 will support it. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
