In message: <alpi...@starbug.ugh.net.au> Andrew <and...@ugh.net.au> writes: : : : On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Olivier Gautherot wrote: : : > I recently installed successfully FreeBSD 8.0 on an Atom-based motherboard - : > works great!!! I would also recommend the i386 distribution. : : Just for a counterpoint, I am running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on an atom based : motherboard. amd64 works fine and my rough understanding of intel type : architectures say you are better off with amd64 over i386 when given the : choice (more registers etc).

I'm running FreeBSD/i386 8.0 with SMP enabled on my netbook:

FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 #2 r196558: Fri Aug 28 01:52:55 MDT 2009 CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x106c2 Stepping = 2 Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x40c39d<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,EST,TM2,SSSE3,xTPR,PDCM,<b22>> AMD Features=0x100000<NX> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 1073741824 (1024 MB) avail memory = 1027878912 (980 MB) ...

And with 8, all the internal devices are supported on my EEEPC 900A.

Warner