Re: A couple of AMD kernel config questions
On Wed, May 26, 2010 3:20 am, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 02:14:34 -0700 (PDT) fbsdm...@dnswatch.com wrote: Greetings, I'm experimenting with an AMD Athlon X2 CPU: http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/athlon-x2/Pages/AMD-at hlon-x2-processor-model-numbers-feature-comparison.aspx I just got. This will be the first AMD based kernel I've built. So I find myself with a couple of questions I'm hoping someone here can assist with. As I understand it, this CPU is a K9, does the following line from GENERIC still apply? cpu HAMMER # aka K8, aka Opteron Athlon64 Yes. Doesn't really mean anything. I have an X2 and that's the cpu setting in my kernel config. I noticed the following in NOTES # x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa options X86BIOS If I include VESA support in the kernel, will I also need to add the that entry to obtain keyboard VESA support? Look at /sys/conf/files.amd64. The BIOS emulator is automatically included if you have VESA in you config file. Any other AMD specific tweaks I should apply? Any comments/suggestions anyone wouls care to offer, will be grsatly appreciated. If your mother board allows it and you have SATA drives I suggest including ATA_CAM and enabling AHCI in the BIOS. That allows, among other things, hot swapping drives. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-amd64-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A couple of AMD kernel config questions
On Wed, May 26, 2010 3:20 am, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 02:14:34 -0700 (PDT) fbsdm...@dnswatch.com wrote: Greetings, I'm experimenting with an AMD Athlon X2 CPU: http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/athlon-x2/Pages/AMD-at hlon-x2-processor-model-numbers-feature-comparison.aspx I just got. This will be the first AMD based kernel I've built. So I find myself with a couple of questions I'm hoping someone here can assist with. As I understand it, this CPU is a K9, does the following line from GENERIC still apply? cpu HAMMER # aka K8, aka Opteron Athlon64 Yes. Doesn't really mean anything. I have an X2 and that's the cpu setting in my kernel config. I noticed the following in NOTES # x86 real mode BIOS emulator, required by atkbdc/dpms/vesa options X86BIOS If I include VESA support in the kernel, will I also need to add the that entry to obtain keyboard VESA support? Look at /sys/conf/files.amd64. The BIOS emulator is automatically included if you have VESA in you config file. Any other AMD specific tweaks I should apply? Any comments/suggestions anyone wouls care to offer, will be grsatly appreciated. If your mother board allows it and you have SATA drives I suggest including ATA_CAM and enabling AHCI in the BIOS. That allows, among other things, hot swapping drives. -- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-amd64-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
