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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
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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
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