From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 08:04:56 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEDC616A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:04:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6B443D55 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:04:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8484oHw021159; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j8484asc021154; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:04:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ken Gunderson Message-ID: <20050904080436.GC20880@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <122ec19705090206416fd81365@mail.gmail.com> <20050902094726.36bb1340.kgunders@teamcool.net> <4318C217.4000604@jetnet.co.uk> <20050902160419.0b079288.kgunders@teamcool.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050902160419.0b079288.kgunders@teamcool.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A8N Deluxe sli (for anyone thats using one) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:04:57 -0000 On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:04:19PM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > I would run away from any such board :-( > > That was my initial preference but when I started shoping realized how > far behind the VIA based stuff is I had to rethink this. Why is VIA based boards "so far behind"? SLI isn't supported on Linux nor FreeBSD, so that cannot be the reason. Early K8T890 boards won't support Athlon64 X2 dual-core CPU's, but the latest revision does. So what is so behind? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)