Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:49:05 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c Message-ID: <41BE4691.9080104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041214013304.GB3352@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200412060827.iB68RAmE058040@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041213191239.GB19680@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpbrcxzx88.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org> <20041214013304.GB3352@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > 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. > There is a benefit from the new generation of devices that are coming out for only PCI-Express and have features and performance that will not be matched in their PCI-X counterparts. While it's always fun for FreeBSD to be chronically behind the curve in device support, I'd like to experiment with breaking that feature and seeing if anyone has a heart attack when their bleeding edge NIC or storage card works the day that they buy it, instead of months/years later. Scott
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