From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 29 17:40:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EA337B417; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:40:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (helo=den2) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Red Hack)) id 16KUxp-0004XZ-00; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:40:37 +1300 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:40:37 +1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time) From: Juha Saarinen To: Greg Lehey Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: VIA chip set "flaws" In-Reply-To: <20011230112352.F33871@monorchid.lemis.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: juha@vimfuego.saarinen.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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