From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 13:46:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7E9150CF; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA90659; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199912062146.NAA90659@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Intel 810? In-Reply-To: <199912061923.OAA32956@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Dec 6, 1999 02:23:24 pm" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hw@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message