Re: PentiumII's.

Anthony Pardini (apardini@cmpu.net)
Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:55:23 -0500 (CDT)


Hmm.. My single PII 266 compiles in 4 minutes. I have the Asus KN97-X
motherboard. What patches to 2.0.30 are you using?

Previously the machine was a dual p100 and now it now seems a lot less
stable.

tony

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, System Email wrote:
>
> > Does linux support PentiumII's (does it work?)
>
> Certainly. We've got 2.0.30 running on two PentiumII 233's [1] here at
> OGI. Kernel compiles in 3 minutes or so. :)
>
> However, the Intel PD440FX motherboard's BIOS is absolutely horrendous,
> and I was stuck for a couple weeks just banging out IRQ conflicts since
> you can't manually assign them on a per-slot basis, and the BIOS was
> handing out duplicates, which the aic7xxx driver didn't particularly like.
> (I've since gotten patches...)
>
> Plenty fast, though. (:
>
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