Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:36:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix MediaGX processors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990426103228.21352A-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199904240457.VAA03260@dingo.cdrom.com>
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We've been playing with it. It works fine but the sound support is non standard, and assumes some off-chip CODEC. it can 'trap' accesses to the standard sound ports and emulate them using the SMI emulation system, but that requires BIOS support. video support is also dependent on the bios setting it up correctly. (we use it in a server and thus don't care about either). (oh yeah we have our own bios that ignores them too) julian On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > "Jason J. Horton" <jason@intercom.com> writes: > > > > > On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, The Classiest Man Alive wrote: > > > > Does anybody have any experiences running FreeBSD on a Cyrix MediaGX > > > > processor with FreeBSD? These are the ones with the video/sound > > > > capabilities integrated into the CPU. > > > > > > Built into the CPU? Thats pretty impressive.... > > > > Yeah, yeah; cute. Integrated into the same chip as the CPU. > > > > I'm also interested in the answer to this question. > > Yes, "mixed". > > You are very much dependant on the quality of the BIOS supporting the > CPU, as many things (most significantly, text output) are emulated in > software. You will want to evaluate the actual platform that you are > looking at using before committing to it. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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