On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:00:05PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/10/2011 02:51 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >On 02/10/2011 12:13 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >> > >>Which spec? Even in this discussion we completely mixed different > >>things. 440FX is not a chipset. > > > >Yes, it is. It's a single silicon package with a defined pinout. > >If you don't believe me, re-read the spec. > > > >It's a MCM with the PIIX3 being internally connected. The > >connection between the i440fx and PIIX3 happens to be PCI but > >that's not always the case. Sometimes it's a proprietary bus. > > Aren't they two distinct chips, together comprising the chip-set? > > One (the northbridge) converts the system bus to PCI + some extra > wires, the other (southbridge) bridges PCI to ISA and contains some > embedded ISA devices. IIRC there are some wires between them that > are not PCI. > Yeah, 440fx is probably northbridge and PIIX3 southbridge. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
