On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Thinker Rix <[email protected]>wrote:
> So if I understand you right, even if I use pfSense 2.1 (FreeBSD 8.3) on a > motherboard with a brand new chipset (Intel C222) and CPU (e.g. Core i3 / > Haswell) it should work, eventhough FreeBSD 8.3 is older than those > technologies and might not fully support the chipset yet (e.g. due to > general compatibility with i386-64 CPUs?!)? > Yes. Intel is pretty good about keeping backward compatibility so the newer chipsets work with older software for the most part. I personally have never had issues with this other than a missing driver for a specific LSI RAID-on-motherboard chipset that Sun used in the old X4100 servers. It was supported only on newer FreeBSD.
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