From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 21 19:38:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11512 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-d3.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11492 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11913; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:36:04 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808211936.TAA11913@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Felipe Garcia cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with vx0 (3Com) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:02:32 +0200." <35DD7DF8.FE395CF7@kkeka.ericsson.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:36:03 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does what is stated below affect FreeBSD? now that vx has became tx with > DMA? vx has become xl (as previously noted). The issues outlined in the Sun announcement are quite valid; note that the only chipsets that are listed as having problems are the '430LX and early '450GX sets. The former are quite rare (only found on very old Pentium boards), and the latter even more so (mostly only found on very old, expensive Pentium Pro boards). There are a substantial number of chipsets *not* listed in the Sun announcement, (anything not from Intel, 430VX, 430TX, 440LX, 440BX, etc.) however I don't believe that the problem is likely to resurface. Unless you posess one of these extremely old and mouldy boards, don't worry about 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-current" in the body of the message