From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 14 01:57:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB3816A4CE; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:57:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418EB43D41; Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:57:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBE1utSj007397; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:56:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBE1usFQ007396; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:56:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:56:54 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20041214015654.GA6711@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200412060827.iB68RAmE058040@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041213191239.GB19680@dragon.nuxi.com> <200412131416.54087.peter@wemm.org> <20041214013304.GB3352@dragon.nuxi.com> <41BE4691.9080104@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41BE4691.9080104@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-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 cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org cc: Peter Wemm cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:57:00 -0000 On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:49:05PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > >>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 I didn't question your interest in PCI-Express. I was responding to Peter's observation that today one cannot buy an AMD64 PCI-Express motherboard. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)