From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 7 18:27:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA27681 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:27:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.okbmei.msk.su (ns.okbmei.msk.su [194.190.170.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA27668 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from kiae.UUCP by ns.okbmei.msk.su with UUCP id AA01178 (5.67c8/IDA-1.5); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:13:28 +0300 Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA24318 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:07:26 +0300 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11824 Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA11710 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:42:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rk.ios.com (rk.ios.com [198.4.75.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11687 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:42:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rashid@localhost) by rk.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA20450; Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:41:00 -0500 From: Rashid Karimov Message-Id: <199603072341.SAA20450@rk.ios.com> Subject: Re: P6 and PCI To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 18:41:00 -0500 (EST) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <15159.826239676@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 7, 96 03:01:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Charset: KOI8-R X-Char-Esc: 29 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does any1 know if ASUS already makes motherboards with an updated chipset ? It's impossible to find a person in that company who understands the problem at all ... Any contacts I can use at ASUS who would be aware of the problem ? > > > I wonder if there will be a lawsuit ... anyway what they > > did is insane ! They had really fast and stable processor > > and shittiest chipset and instead of making us wait for > > a DECENT system, they just combined what they had at the time. > > ASUS has agreed to fix our own motherboard - have you tried following > up with them to see if they'll do the same for you as well? No > need to get too incensed about this! :-) No - I meant Intel :) there . ASUS just assembled the pieces together. Good news - looks like Intel started shipping "Alder" motherboards to some of its VARs. Is there a sense in buying SMP MBs now hoping for working and stable SMP support in FreeBSD by say end of (this :) summer ? :))) Rashid