E7205/E7505 support in 2.4

E7205/E7505 support in 2.4

[Stephen Thomas]

I'm thinking of upgrading the innards of my home machine, and
currently I'm interested in using a motherboard based around the
Granite Bay chipset (specifically, I looking at an Asus P4G8X).

I notice that 2.5 kernels now have explicit support for this
chipset, while 2.4 don't seem to.  So, if I ran a 2.4 kernel
on such a machine, would it a) not work, b) work fine, or
c) work OK but not as well as it could do?

Widening the point somewhat, I notice messages on the list
go by stating that motherboard such-and-such is stable/flaky under
linux.  Is there any list anywhere of known good/bad boards,
chipsets, etc?

Stephen

Re: E7205/E7505 support in 2.4

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:20:26PM +0000, Stephen Thomas wrote:

 > I notice that 2.5 kernels now have explicit support for this
 > chipset, while 2.4 don't seem to.  So, if I ran a 2.4 kernel
 > on such a machine, would it a) not work, b) work fine, or
 > c) work OK but not as well as it could do?

The only part I'm aware of in 2.5 is the AGPGART support which
recently got added. 2.4 lacks AGP3.0 support which this relies
upon, so in 2.4 you'll get unaccelerated 3d (DRI won't work)
unless you add the 2.4 patch that was posted a while back.

Jeff Hartmann has been working on agpgart silently all this time,
and aparently has AGP3.0 patches for 2.4 pending, so it could
turn around quite soon.

		Dave

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