From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 12: 3:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6505514EE2; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00608; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:04:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912062004.MAA00608@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@freebsd.org, hw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel 810? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Dec 1999 14:23:24 EST." <199912061923.OAA32956@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:04:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following > claim: > > > All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip > > set which does not support FreeBSD because 16MB of the motherboard > > memory is used for the display controller. There is no way to tell > > the FreeBSD kernel not to use this memory so it will corrupt data. > > I find this statement rather dubious. Can anyone out there say with > more certainty? I can say with certainty that there are S370PGA boards that don't use the 810; we have a number inhouse here that use the 440BX for example. I'd be quite surprised if the 16MB shared video aperture wasn't correctly described by the PnP data; this may require 4.x or 3.x with VM86 defined to deal with it "right". If nobody else has any commentary on this, we'll get one into the lab. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message