On Saturday 25 March 2006 00:48, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:41:54AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2006 21:37, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:37:20PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > > > I made the same change locally, but haven't checked it in, because > > > > > I have concerns about this breaking AMD systems with VIA GARTs.\ > > > > > > > > Does such a beast exist? Normally the GART is in the Northbridge > > > > and the only Northbridges on AMD systems are on CPUs. > > > > > > I think some of the VIA AGP3 chipsets also appeared on their K8 boards. > > > > I wouldn't expect them to put the northbridge of a C3 system on a K8 board > > because it doesn't make any sense. Most likely they only reused the southbridge. > > They shared their P4 northbridges too iirc. But the P4 doesn't have an on CPU die northbridge unlike the K8. Still even for the P4 it's hard to believe because P4 has a quite different front side bus. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-x86_64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
