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Date:      Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:43:33 +0100 (BST)
From:      Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 430TX ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970411124033.11730H-100000@bagpuss.visint.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199704102041.NAA09631@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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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

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