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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 586 PCI Date: 16 Oct 1994 20:06:34 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 24 Message-ID: <37s14a$jsr@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <37d4mo$ick@pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov> <37hd1j$8c1@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <5Ym_1NIjoRB@subloch.ruessel.sub.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <5Ym_1NIjoRB@subloch.ruessel.sub.org>, Stefan Huerter <maulwurf@subloch.ruessel.sub.org> wrote: >Guckux Nate > >nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) wrote: > >>Not necessarily. I ran 1.1 on my Pentium/PCI box until 1.1.5 was >>released. However, I would recommend that you DO install 1.1.5 >>as the kernel enhancements are well worth it. > >so, what this means? Are the enhancements for the PCI (specially for the >SCSI-NCR Chip) or are there any supports for the Pentium preocessor? There is after-release support for the NCR-SCSPI chip, and the 1.1.5 release recognizes the Pentium as such. Other than that, all PCI/Pentium look like really fast ISA/x86 stuff. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.