From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 25 09:15:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25906 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:15:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (root@venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25870; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:15:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA12115; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:15:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:15:03 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy To: Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav cc: Satoshi Asami , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pentium Chipsets In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA25879 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25 Feb 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Vincent Poy writes: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > Go to www.intel.com for Intel chipset datasheets. > > I did and the link went to the development site. It seems like > > the datasheets have changed. The ones a few months ago used to mention > > the amount of cacheable ram but the new ones don't. > > Look harder, and keep in mind that for the Pentium II, it's not the > chipset that determines the amount of cacheable memory, but the > processor, since the L2 cache is located on the processor card. > > The datasheet for the 430HX chipset, for instance, has cacheability > information in section 4.3 "Secondary Cache Interface", on page 35. It > indicates that the HX chipset can support up to 512 MB of cached RAM > when equipped with 11-bit tag chips. > > BTW, the datasheets I read were those listed on > . I think I know what I did wrong now. Before, they used to have a comparison chart or a summary of each chipset but now it's in .pdf so that's why I couldn't find it. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message