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Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 11:02:19 +0200
From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Faried Nawaz <fn@hungry.com>
Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: VIA-VP2
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On 1997-10-03 19:02 -0700, Faried Nawaz <fn@Hungry.COM> wrote:
> Does FreeBSD 2.2.x support VIA-VP2 (specifically, VIA 590VP2) at all?

Only PCI chip sets that don't comply to the PCI standard 
need special support, and the VIA chip sets don't seem to
fall into that category. (Some PPro chip sets do ...)

But there may be no support of Bus-Master EIDE transfers
for those chip sets (I don't use EIDE myself and do not 
know how hard it would be to add support for DMA to some 
new chip set.)

Regards, STefan