From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 11 04:40:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA12428 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA12418 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 04:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11916; Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:43:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:43:33 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Terry Lambert cc: Darren Reed , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 430TX ? In-Reply-To: <199704102041.NAA09631@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Is the 430TX chipset recognised/supported yet ? > > Is this a PCI chipset? Yes. > > PCI chipsets are configured at BIOS POST time. > > You do not need chipset specific drivers. It might be useful if FreeBSD knew that only X amount of mem was cacheable, don't know why, but it strikes that it *could* optimise where stuff gets stored that way. > > The SMP stuff wants chipset specific drivers because it wants to count > bridges on machines with broken MP-tables in ROM/RAM/FLASH counts of > the number of PCI bridges (so far: one motherboard vendor). Which one ? This might be a good thing to know before I buy a motherboard! Steve -- Steve Roome Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522