[OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD Phenom II X6 + 870 chipset, feedback?

[Dave Koelmeyer]

On 16/07/11 10:00 PM, Gary wrote:
> AFAIK, you shouldn't have any problems with AMD procs. Sun used to
> ship servers with AMD procs so unless someone's gone and yanked all
> that code from the kernel (highly unlikely) then you shouldn't have
> any troubles. Drivers for the motherboard, on the other hand, so long
> as there isn't anything too cutting edge in the way of controller
> chipsets ...?
>
> -Gary

Thanks for the feedback Gary, the Asrock motherboard I'm looking at 
looks packed with fairly stock controllers (same Realtek ethernet part 
as what's in my Intel box at the moment for example) so looks like it 
might be a goer.

Cheers!

-- 
Dave Koelmeyer
http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz