On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:12:17AM -0400, Jeff Ratliff wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:23:12PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, James Wilkinson wrote: > > > > > Shardul Vyas wrote: > > > > i read for kernel 2.2 specifications-- > > > > > > > > "AMD K6 is not supported" > > > > > > Erm -- what? Where? > > > > > > Mike Burger wrote: > > > > Fedora Core doesn't make use of the 2.2 kernel...it uses 2.4 (FC1) or 2.6 > > > > (FC2/3). > > > > > > > > I wouldn't go back to a 2.2 kernel, at this point. > > > > > > True. But even if there was a problem with 2.2 and the K6 at one point > > > (and I never heard of it), it didn't last long. The K6 came out in 1997, > > > the K6-2 in 1998, and 2.4 came out right at the end of 2000, if I recall > > > correctly. > > > > As I recall, though, the initial message mentioned Fedora...ah, here it > > is: > > > > "i already have fedora core installed on my AMD K6(3D now)machine." > > > > Although, looking at it, now, I note the 3DNow notation, and I don't > > recall that being available on the K6 line...he may well have a K7 > > (Athlon/Duron) and just misnomered. > > > This probably refers to the K6-III (also called K6-3 or K6-3DNow!). It was > a short lived processor. I think it came out in a 400 Mhz and 450 Mhz The K6-II also supports 3D-Now. They went up to (at least) 500 Mhz, there may have been a 550. (My old K6-2/500 is now running my smoothwall firewall box.) Nice processor, though the intel-style FPU is weaker than the P5's equivalent. > version. I'm running a 400 here in my little mail server box (it just > serves mail to me, mostly). It had a weird tri-level cache structure, > and the 400 Mhz version was just a tad slower than a P3-450. AMD > dropped marketing for it as the K6-2 went to 450 and 500 Mhz speeds, > then the Athlon came out, and it didn't matter any more. Here's a > link to AMD's page on the chip. > > <http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_1288,00.html> > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven." ------------------------------ Matthew 7:21 (niv) -----------------------------
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