From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 9 19:31:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00519 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:31:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyger.inna.net (root@tyger.inna.net [206.151.66.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00512 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caught.inna.net (caught.inna.net [206.151.66.7]) by tyger.inna.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10653; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:30:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:30:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Arnold To: John Milford cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, jwm@csua.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Apollo VP2/VP3 chipset In-Reply-To: <199707040433.VAA23797@meeko.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, John Milford wrote: > Does anyone have experience with these chipsets? Are you > happy with them ... I am thinking about getting a motherboard based on > one or the other of these, but have not seen much about them on > the list. The VP2 is also known as the AMD640 chipset. AMD licensed the core from VIA. Only board I've seen shipping with the VIA 590/VP2 chipset is the FIC PA-2011 which is ATX only. I have not extensively tested my AMD640 based board. In fact, I powered it up to make sure it worked okay and it has sat in the box ever since. Rumors about the VP3 : SMP support for OpenPIC chips ( finally! ). Beyond that rumor and PC97 and AGC support and complience... not much other real info. Might want to hit http://sysdoc.pair.com If you haven't hit it already, http://www.via.com.tw for the chipset's homepage. +-----------------------------------------------+ : Tom Arnold - No relation to Rosanne : : SysAdmin/Pres - TBI, Ltd ( inna.net ) : : The Middle Peninsula's Internet Connection : +-----------------------------------------------+