From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 14 18:54:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3807C14F69 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA16986; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:46:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199904150146.SAA16986@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: Chuck Robey Cc: Chris Csanady , tls@rek.tjls.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: many cheap PC164 boards -- gret for NetBSD (fwd) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:46:47 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:22:21 -0400 (EDT) Chuck Robey wrote: > > According to my Pyxis manual, the AlphaPC 164LX contains the recommended > > workaround for the DMA prefetch bug. > > Does the PC164 have this bug? Is there a hardware or saftware > workaround, or does it cripple those boards for PCI? No, the PC164 doesn't have a Pyxis; it has an ALCOR2 (21172), IIRC. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message