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From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>
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Subject: Re: Intel 810?
To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:22:45 -0600 (CST)
Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman),
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In-Reply-To: <199912062004.MAA00608@mass.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Dec 06, 1999 12:04:46 PM
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> 
> > 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.
> 

I'm using a Socket 370 board with a 440ZX and one with a 440BX, they both
work fine... I've got an 810c and an 810e that I'll try later today.

Kevin


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