Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:47:13 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c Message-ID: <200412141047.13884.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20041214163159.GB12788@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200412060827.iB68RAmE058040@repoman.freebsd.org> <200412131939.46695.peter@wemm.org> <20041214163159.GB12788@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tuesday 14 December 2004 08:31 am, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:39:46PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: [..] > > On that note, we still barely support anything more from AMD's > > platform than the basic instruction set due to lack of > > documentation.. > > What documentation are you missing? You personally are covered by an > AMD NDA that gives you access to AMD NDA platform documents -- the > same documentation that Suse and Red Hat have access to. > > > That's > > why FreeBSD/amd64 ran so quickly on the Intel hardware. We only > > used the most basic features of the generic instruction set in an > > otherwise PC platform. We don't take advantage of the IOMMU, the > > timers, etc. (Still no documentation). > > Have you ever visited your AMD NDA website? Nope, never been told how or where. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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