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From: Indrek Kruusa <indrek.kruusa@artecdesign.ee>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Limit VIA and SIS AGP choices to x86
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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