From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:57:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:57:37 -0400 Received: from thimm.dialup.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.217.207]:9735 "EHLO pua.physik.fu-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 28 May 2001 11:57:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:57:12 +0200 From: Axel Thimm To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Status of ALi MAGiK 1 support in 2.4.? Message-ID: <20010528175712.B18955@pua.nirvana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What is the status of the support for this chipset, found for example in an ASUS A7A266? Judging from http://www.acerlabs.com/eng/support/faqlnx.htm one gets the impression that ALi is respectfully treating the Linux community. Although VIA is the most popular chipset vendor, its reaction on the recently Southbridge 686 bugs (and even more recently the Northbridge bug with Athlon C) and the pirq routing problem in Linux rather disqualify it. So it seems that only AMD and ALi are left with Socket A chipsets (SiS 735 is yet to come). And the ALi MAGiK 1 has a good feature/cost ratio and is being reported as very stable (although perhaps not very fast). So having been burned in the recent past with VIAs KT133A/686B and Linux, I hope that I can get an ALi MAGiK 1 board and rest in peace ... Thanks, Axel. -- Axel.Thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de