cvs commit: src/sys/conf NOTES

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Fri Sep 3 10:09:59 PDT 2004


Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:57:55 -0700
> Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:00 pm, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>
>>>"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> writes:
>>>
>>>>Could it also be Intel Xeon CT[*]?  And thus amd64 also?
>>>
>>>It's really chipset-dependent, not processor-dependent.  Will EM64T-
>>>enabled P4s or Xeons run on ICH motherboards?
>>
>>Intel use the same programming interface on their newer chipsets, that 
>>happen to support their 64-bit enabled cpus.
> 
> 
> Does this include the ichwd part too?
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 

The 7520 chipset that the current 64-bit Xeons use has an ICH5 for the
Southbridge, so I would expect the ichwd driver to have a chance of
working on it.

Scott


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