Re: When AMD support arrives, will it be in the form of SiS 735?

[Eric W. Biederman]

Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joane Lispton wrote:
> 
> > I am buying a new system, and it will be AMD based. After browsing the list
> > archives, I would like to ask you which chipset will most likely be
> > supported when LinuxBIOS starts to work with AMD chips; am I right in
> > assuming that the SiS 735 will be one of the first ones?
> 
> The first one is already there, the sis 730. The next one will (we hope!)
> be the 735.
> 
> We're still having trouble with turning on K7 L2 cache. Part of the
> problem is that AMD doesn't seem to realize that there is a problem :-)

A request as been put to AMD and there seems to be some work going on.
However official channels at AMD are not fast.

> 
> we're working on it.

Oh how I wish it were the L2 cache...

Eric