From owner-cvs-all Thu May 27 9:40:15 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C594155F7; Thu, 27 May 1999 09:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA02452; Thu, 27 May 1999 18:40:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Roger Hardiman Cc: Nick Hibma , Roger Hardiman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options References: <374C0EB9.15FB@cs.strath.ac.uk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 27 May 1999 18:40:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: Roger Hardiman's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 16:09:45 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Roger Hardiman 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 -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message