From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 12:50:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA23325 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:50:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23269 Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA09028; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:47:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603052047.NAA09028@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Triton-II support... when? To: mikebo@tellabs.com Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 13:47:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, mikebo@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603051934.NAA02303@sunc210.tellabs.com> from "mikebo@tellabs.com" at Mar 5, 96 01:34:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I understand that the new Triton-II chipset will be making its debut > on system boards around the end of March. I've heard it will provide for > an ~5% memory access speed gain, plus concurrent access to PCI and ISA > busses (whatever that buys me). Perhaps someone else can explain these > things better than I, and put the purported benefits of Triton-II into > perspective for us non-chipset-savvy buyers. > > I was about to upgrade a 486/50 to a 133Mhz Endevour. My questions are: > o What will Triton-II really buy me? It fixes the cache writeback bug in the Triton-I. > o Is it worth a 4-6 week wait for Triton-II main boards to arrive? Is working hardware better than broken hardware? 8-). > o Will FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE boot/run on Triton-II main boards as-is? Will FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE boot/run on a P5 without the floating point bug? The question is basically a non-sequitur -- there is no function difference in the chipsets except the Triton-II happens to work. > o If not, how long will it be before Triton-II support is added to > the FreeBSD kernel? FreeBSD supports the Triton chipset. Since the difference between the I and II is the cache bug is fixed in the II, I can't see where fixing a bug could make it not run. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.