Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 15:22:45 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), current@FreeBSD.ORG, hw@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel 810? Message-ID: <199912062122.PAA98177@celery.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <199912062004.MAA00608@mass.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Dec 06, 1999 12:04:46 PM
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> > > I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following > > claim: > > > > > All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip > > > set which does not support FreeBSD because 16MB of the motherboard > > > memory is used for the display controller. There is no way to tell > > > the FreeBSD kernel not to use this memory so it will corrupt data. > > > > I find this statement rather dubious. Can anyone out there say with > > more certainty? > > I can say with certainty that there are S370PGA boards that don't use the > 810; we have a number inhouse here that use the 440BX for example. > > I'd be quite surprised if the 16MB shared video aperture wasn't correctly > described by the PnP data; this may require 4.x or 3.x with VM86 defined > to deal with it "right". If nobody else has any commentary on this, > we'll get one into the lab. > I'm using a Socket 370 board with a 440ZX and one with a 440BX, they both work fine... I've got an 810c and an 810e that I'll try later today. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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