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
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