From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 16:28:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17811 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:28:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA17741 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23033; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:58:01 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA04649; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:57:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980312105757.21044@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:57:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Penisoara Adrian , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ALi/ALADDIN 4+" chipset ?!? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Penisoara Adrian on Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 10:54:46AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 March 1998 at 10:54:46 +0200, Penisoara Adrian wrote: > Hi, > > I've heard of a motherboard with this "ALi/ALADDIN 4+" chipset and > wondered wether this would cause troubles -- is it compatible with the > Intel TX chipset how they claim ? Well, in fact I'd say "vive la différence". It has the great advantage of being able to cache up to 512 MB of memory, depending on the tag RAM. The TX maxes out at 64 MB. You should check the tag RAM, though (a small chip with the inscription xx129, xx256 or xx257). You need at least two of them to cache more than 64 MB. Also, the Aladdin 4+ is about 3% slower than the TX with 512 kB cache, and fractionally faster with 1 MB. > Does FreeBSD have any special driver code for this chipset ? No. Drivers are for peripherals. The "chipset" is logically part of the CPU. > Thank you very much, sorry for polluting the list with this kind > of questions... I wouldn't call it pollution. That's what the list's for. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message