Intel Atom Questions

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to find out before buying an Intel Atom Processor which ones can be used with the AMD64 Release of FreeBSD 7.0, the models i think will work are the follows, however i am sure i read somewhere that anything starting with a 5 wont work??

Intel® Atom™ Processor D425
Intel® Atom™ Processor D525
Intel® Atom™ Processor N455
Intel® Atom™ Processor D410
Intel® Atom™ Processor D510
Intel® Atom™ Processor N450

Thanks for your answers in anticipation.

Regards

Chris
 
rentboy said:
however i am sure i read somewhere that anything starting with a 5 wont work??

Tell that to my D510 :)
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FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010
    root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC [red]amd64[/red]
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: [red]Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D510[/red]   @ 1.66GHz (1676.70-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x106ca  Family = 6  Model = 1c  Stepping = 10
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x40e31d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
  TSC: P-state invariant
 
It would be a surprise if any of the Atom processors didn't work. Newer Intel on-board video is where there are serious concerns.
 
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