There are a couple known issues going on with the VIA Chipset line (Some acknowledge by VIA partially, some not.) beyond just the 686B bug.
Here's a couple sites with details. Myself, I think it's a BIOS writer's problem as well, but unfortunatly with most VIA boards, their goal is performance over stability, leaving people like us SOL. http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/ http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/813/1.html <- In german, bring your fish Myself, I'd love to see a couple kernel options that could impliment the chipset tweaks, I think they'd most appropriately be included with the other cpu tweaks, and should have an appropriate warning attached to them. Joshua Coombs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Need PCI/VIA chipset help (was Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-drivers) > > Anyhow since this is not always the case I did the fix for -current, > > granted it should not be in the ATA driver, but since nobody else > > really cared at the time.... > > Does this mean that if you dont have the ATA drivers in the kernel then > you wont get the fix ? As the bug occurs under high PCI loads then this > can potentially affect people with large amounts of PCI activity on > SCSI drives too surely ? Granted I've never seen it happen, but it still > bothers me that it might... > > -pcf. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
