From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 23 0: 4:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F8B14D2C for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA28018; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:04:01 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:04:01 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Dennis Cc: Mike Smith , Amancio Hasty , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? In-Reply-To: <199903221711.MAA20551@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Dennis wrote: > At 06:00 PM 3/21/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >> At 12:13 PM 3/21/99 -0800, you wrote: > >> > > >> >Hmm.... > >> >Does anyone know when the faster PCI busses (64bits or 66MHz PCI clock > rate) > >> >are going to be availabe ? > >> > >> The "availability" of 66Mhz busses is almost moot. Making ASICs work at > 33mhz > >> is a chore....66mhz is a waze off. > > > >That's close, but several of the major ASIC vendors were (or were > >claiming to be) sampling devices with 66MHz PCI macrocells the last time > >I looked. > > Any names? the vendors will be few, I think, for awhile. > Uhhh.... * The PPC106 (PPC chipset) supports 66Mhz PCI * The PPC8240 supports 66Mhz PCI * Sun UltraAX motherboards have it * S3 chips have supported AGP/66Mhz PCI for about a year now at least. * ATI supports 66Mhz PCI * Digital^H^H^H^H^H^H^HIntel PCI-PCI bridges support it As for ASICs & FPGAs, everybody has had a PCI core for a while now. At least everybody had it year ago. I'd say the only thing that keeps 66Mhz&|64bit PCI from being more widely used is the lack of these features in PC motherboards. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message