Hardware Support for new MB

[Alexander Motin]

Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> I wonder if FreeBSD supports
> 
> Audio:
> - ALC690 (ASRock)
> - ALC88S / ALC889 (MSI)
> 
> SATA
> - ICH10R Southbridge
> 
> I guess since the ICH10R also can do AHCI this is at least supported by
> the new (and old) ahci driver.

It is supported by both old ata(4) drives, and new ahci(4). I've
recently tested it in my lab.

> But what about sound?

All Realtek HDA codecs are supported fine. There can be some surprises
from motherboard vendor, but usually they work out of the box.

-- 
Alexander Motin