cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c

[Peter Wemm]

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.

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Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
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