Re: [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86

Indrek Kruusa
2006-07-07T07:28:59Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:21 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:57:25AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>>> > > As far as I am aware, Alpha, PPC and IA64 don't have VIA or
>>> SIS AGP
>>> > chipsets available.
>>>
>>> VIA has turned up on PPC (some Apple notebooks).
>>
>> only the southbridge... agp is a northbridge thing...
>>
>
> Not necessarily. Some HyperTransport southbridges have AGP on them,
> for example.

Yes, and this is evil because historically 90% people think about
"xxxxxbridge" as "right bunch" of implemented electrical interfaces and
not by MSR's or whatever else :)

Indrek