Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:40:37 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VIA chip set "flaws" Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112301437470.1276-100000@den2> In-Reply-To: <20011230112352.F33871@monorchid.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > That doesn't sound like hardware to me. Also, I've seen test results > from sources I respect which show pretty much the opposite. Well, http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/3.html reckons it's because VIA chip sets only transfer 96 bytes per PCI burst unlike Intel's, which do 4096 bytes in a go. The following pages seem to indicate that you can program away this behaviour to a certain extent, but not fully. -- Juha Take off every sig! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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