Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel 810? Message-ID: <199912062146.NAA90659@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <199912061923.OAA32956@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Dec 6, 1999 02:23:24 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I can say with certain that statement is false, you can run a Socket 370
chip with any PII chipset, including the BX (which is what I have) and
the VIA chipsets.
> > 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?
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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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