From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 6 16:38:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D8B14CC7; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dakuntz@home.com) Received: from windows ([24.2.16.41]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991207003832.KJJX7535.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@windows>; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 16:38:32 -0800 Message-ID: <001101bf404b$c5049540$29100218@micronetinfo.com> From: "Douglas Kuntz" To: "Garrett Wollman" , , References: <199912061923.OAA32956@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Intel 810? Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:41:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As others have stated, Socket370 boards arent all 810/810c...my 4.0-Current machine was, until last week, a Celeron 366 Socket370 on a Shuttle 440LX board. Though, as far as I can tell, if you're going to use a Celeron PPGA chip, save money and go with the LX or Via chipset based boards, and use the saved money on ram or a larger harddrive. Celerons are all 66mhz bus speed...though, Intel has said they plan on releasing Socket370 Pentium IIIs in 2000. Though, on a sidenote, I really see no reason on getting a 100mhz Socket370 board to run a Pentium III on later, when, except for the clock speed increase, a P3 is the same as a P2 with just the addition of SIMD extensions, which I dont think FreeBSD uses yet. Douglas Kuntz Editor PC Tech Reports http://www.pctechreports.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garrett Wollman" To: ; Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 2:23 PM Subject: Intel 810? > 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? > > -GAWollman > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message