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Date:      27 May 1999 18:40:03 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Roger Hardiman <roger@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options
Message-ID:  <xzphfoy5uvw.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Roger Hardiman's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 16:09:45 %2B0100"
References:  <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990526164046.11052l-100000@elect8> <374C0EB9.15FB@cs.strath.ac.uk>

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Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> writes:
> The 430FX and SIS/VIA/OPTi chipset workarounds are actually inside
> the Bt878 hardware. Brooktree included them because these
> chipsets do not implement the PCI 2.1 specification properly.
> They are broken chipsets.

Aha! This might explain why FreeBSD cannot run reliably on a
motherboard with a VIA chipset. I get a 100% failure rate running
FreeBSD on Shuttle Super Socket 7 motherboards. They either freeze or
spontaneously reboot when subjected to any kind of load (a kernel
or port build is usually enough).

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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