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Date:      Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:33:04 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c
Message-ID:  <20041214013304.GB3352@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org>
References:  <200412060827.iB68RAmE058040@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041213191239.GB19680@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpbrcxzx88.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org>

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Monday 13 December 2004 01:47 pm, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > At the moment I don't know of anyone with an AMD64 PCI Express
> > > motherboard.
> >
> > The Celestica A8440 has dual onboard PCI-X NICs and two PCI-X slots.
> > Surely someone in the project should be able to get their hands on
> > one?  I for one would love to have one for the tinderbox...
> >
> > DES
> 
> Just for clarity, we were talking about PCI-Express, not PCI-X.
> 
> BTW, I think it is amusing that the only machines readily available that 
> have PCI-Express to run FreeBSD/amd64 on are Intel systems...

Why?
Today there is zero benefit to PCI-Express vs. AGP 8x or PCI-X 133mhz.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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