Date: 27 May 1999 18:40:03 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Roger Hardiman <roger@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options Message-ID: <xzphfoy5uvw.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Roger Hardiman's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 16:09:45 %2B0100" References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990526164046.11052l-100000@elect8> <374C0EB9.15FB@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> writes: > The 430FX and SIS/VIA/OPTi chipset workarounds are actually inside > the Bt878 hardware. Brooktree included them because these > chipsets do not implement the PCI 2.1 specification properly. > They are broken chipsets. Aha! This might explain why FreeBSD cannot run reliably on a motherboard with a VIA chipset. I get a 100% failure rate running FreeBSD on Shuttle Super Socket 7 motherboards. They either freeze or spontaneously reboot when subjected to any kind of load (a kernel or port build is usually enough). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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