Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:33:04 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c Message-ID: <20041214013304.GB3352@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org> References: <200412060827.iB68RAmE058040@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041213191239.GB19680@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpbrcxzx88.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2004 01:47 pm, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > > At the moment I don't know of anyone with an AMD64 PCI Express > > > motherboard. > > > > The Celestica A8440 has dual onboard PCI-X NICs and two PCI-X slots. > > Surely someone in the project should be able to get their hands on > > one? I for one would love to have one for the tinderbox... > > > > DES > > Just for clarity, we were talking about PCI-Express, not PCI-X. > > BTW, I think it is amusing that the only machines readily available that > have PCI-Express to run FreeBSD/amd64 on are Intel systems... Why? Today there is zero benefit to PCI-Express vs. AGP 8x or PCI-X 133mhz. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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