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 -- 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
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