Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc8 [also: VIA Support]

Robert Hancock
2009-06-05T00:54:59Z

Michael S. Zick wrote:
> VIA has not publicly published sufficient technical information to presume
> that the cache coherency control protocols are the same as Intel's.
>
> These are cpu/chipset pairs - Think System On 2 Chips. SoS2C.

At the low level, maybe not, but functionally it has to be equivalent.
Otherwise the chip can't really be considered x86-compatible.