Hi Raymond,
You may have already received an answer to your question, but ICH in Intel
parlance stands for "I/O Controller Hub" and it is part of the chipset that
supports a particular microprocessor motherboard implementation.  There are
MANY Intel chipsets and MANY ICH variations but below is a link to the Intel
Q965 / Q963 Express Chipsets for use with the Intel Core 2 Duo processors.
(It is not the only choice)

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/q965_q963/index.htm

I am not very familiar with XEN, but it sounds like XEN recognizes the
chipset and correctly controls how processes executing within XEN's virtual
environment are allowed I/O accesses to/through the chipset.

Hope this helps...

CLN

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Meyer [mailto:raymond.meyer@rambler.ru]
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:53 AM
> To: Pierrick Brossin
> Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Intel Core 2 Duo support?
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:12:40 +0200
> Pierrick Brossin <pierrick@bs-network.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 02:04:30AM +0100, Raymond Meyer wrote:
> > > Hi, does NetBSD support Intel Core 2 Duo processors? Does it recognise
> > > multiple cores. Will it run pretty much the same way it runs on AMD64
> > > hardware?
> >
> > Well I have an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and it works pretty well. The
> > only problem I've had so far is the ICH support. But it's easily solved
> > by running Xen :)
> >
> >
> >
> > -Pierrick Brossin
> >
>
> What is ICH? How is is solved by running Xen?
>
>