From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 23 14:25:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14D8037B479; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cybercable.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA13528; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:25:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from herbelot@cybercable.fr) Message-ID: <39F4ACC0.2AF73129@cybercable.fr> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:25:20 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: john@goodleaf.net, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT-DDR hardware? References: <200010232053.e9NKrGh04777@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > I'm getting interested in the x86 again. The new Micron DDR RAM chipset is > > looking kind of cool, and since I'm seeing prices for DDR that are hardly > > higher than for conventional SDRAM, I might indulge in such as system. > > > > How's FreeBSD looking with regard to the this new memory standard (if I may > > use the word)? > > Why would FreeBSD care? It's just memory. 8) > > Seriously; there's less than no chance that a new memory standard would > require any software support with the market the way it is. Legacy > compatibility is *everything*. > drifting one little more from the original topic : Does someone in the FreeBSD project have any information about the "just about to arrive" new SMP chipset from AMD ? (760MP IIRC) I'm quite satisfied with a lowly BP6, but I'd like to get another gadget and I would prefer not sending any money to Intel. Cheers TfH -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message