From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 23:59:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA04078 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA04073 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA16035; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:59:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jason Alan Nordwick cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: planned AGP support ? In-Reply-To: <19970924191935.29785.qmail@scheme.xcf.berkeley.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 24 Sep 1997, Jason Alan Nordwick wrote: > > I am in the middle of building a new system for my use, and I purchased > one the the new Tyan dual P2 motherboards. > > First, since it is a dual processor system, does only the 3.0 branch > support them ? or does 2.2, also ? SMP will remain in 3.0, I think; a lot of effort had to go into bending 3.0 to make it work and I don't think they want to go through backporting it. > > Second, it supports the new Advandced Graphics Port (AGP) (just another > dataline between main memory and the graphics card), but so far no > OS supports AGP (win98 says that it will in the second release). I > retrieved the AGP spec from Intel and it doesn't look like too much work, > so I was curious if anybody is planning on making the support ? Not that I've heard of. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major