Sorry for the inconvenience

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910090118170.20767 at starbug.ugh.net.au>
            Andrew <andrew at 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