Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:56:54 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c Message-ID: <20041214015654.GA6711@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <41BE4691.9080104@freebsd.org> References: <200412060827.iB68RAmE058040@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041213191239.GB19680@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpbrcxzx88.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org> <20041214013304.GB3352@dragon.nuxi.com> <41BE4691.9080104@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:49:05PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > >>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. > > There is a benefit from the new generation of devices that are coming > out for only PCI-Express and have features and performance that will not > be matched in their PCI-X counterparts. While it's always fun for > FreeBSD to be chronically behind the curve in device support, I'd like > to experiment with breaking that feature and seeing if anyone has a > heart attack when their bleeding edge NIC or storage card works the day I didn't question your interest in PCI-Express. I was responding to Peter's observation that today one cannot buy an AMD64 PCI-Express motherboard. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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