From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 5 12:16:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA20378 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:16:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA20363 Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA02226 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:13:29 +0100 Message-Id: <199603052013.AA02226@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 21:13:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: mikebo@tellabs.com "Triton-II support... when?" (Mar 5, 13:34) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: mikebo@tellabs.com Subject: Re: Triton-II support... when? Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 5, 13:34, mikebo@tellabs.com wrote: } Subject: Triton-II support... when? } Greetings - } I understand that the new Triton-II chipset will be making its debut } on system boards around the end of March. I've heard it will provide for } an ~5% memory access speed gain, plus concurrent access to PCI and ISA } busses (whatever that buys me). Perhaps someone else can explain these } things better than I, and put the purported benefits of Triton-II into } perspective for us non-chipset-savvy buyers. } } I was about to upgrade a 486/50 to a 133Mhz Endevour. My questions are: } o What will Triton-II really buy me? It should be a high performance chip set with support for ECC memory and multiple Pentium CPUs. } o Is it worth a 4-6 week wait for Triton-II main boards to arrive? How could we tell whether it's worth it for YOU ? } o Will FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE boot/run on Triton-II main boards as-is? I expect it to run out of the box. Let me know, if it doesn't. } o If not, how long will it be before Triton-II support is added to } the FreeBSD kernel? Depends on the quality of the boot message logs I get sent: Hours, if they are OK :) Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se