Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:39:30 +0200 (EET) From: Penisoara Adrian <ady@warpnet.ro> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ALi/ALADDIN 4+" chipset ?!? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312083316.10888G-100000@ady.warpnet.ro> In-Reply-To: <19980312105757.21044@freebie.lemis.com>
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Hi, On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tue, 10 March 1998 at 10:54:46 +0200, Penisoara Adrian wrote: > > 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. Well, the motherboard in question is ATC 5130; I've heard good things about the ATC 5000 one wich was the first in this class (which, BTW, had an original Intel TX chipset)... Too bad it has only 512Kb cache. > > > Does FreeBSD have any special driver code for this chipset ? > > No. Drivers are for peripherals. The "chipset" is logically part of > the CPU. So it shouldn't matter... Then what about those "chip0: Intel Triton" messages in the boot sequence ? Does that code take advatage of some of the specific features of the original Intel PIIX chipset ? > > > 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. Well, I believe it was supposed to serve only FreeBSD-related questions, not some general hardware questions, but anyway... :) > > Greg > Thanks ! Ady (@warpnet.ro) Warp Net Technologies To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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