From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 9 03:29:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA23951 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 03:29:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA23940 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 03:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr2-37.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA29314 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:28:14 +0100 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id MAA06104; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:27:29 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:26:09 +0100 From: se@freebsd.org (Stefan Esser) To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FYI: P6 configure (from news) References: <199701082319.RAA28628@plains.nodak.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL15 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199701082319.RAA28628@plains.nodak.edu>; from Mark Tinguely on Jan 8, 1997 17:19:27 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 8, tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) wrote: > taken from news: > ------------- > > From: Andrew Vanderstock > Subject: P6 PCI enabler (Was: Re: 3D MUCH FASTER THAN MATROX) > Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 21:21:50 +1100 > Organization: St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne > Message-ID: <32D3753E.25EE@greebo.svhm.org.au> > > I'm working on a P6 "enabler" which will enable write combining and > setup the fastest possible MTTR setup for unixes pretty much > automatically. It will also have a "danger! danger!" PCI write posting > option for the Orion and will automatically enable PCI write posting for > all 440FX Natoma's. It will be for free unixes (Linux first, others when > they test it out :-) and source will be provided. SMP support will > probably be a 1.1 revision, as all processors have to run the same MTRR > config and I don't have a SMP machine to test it with. I will look at the code when it is released, and will integrate it into the FreeBSD PCI code ... Regards, STefan