Subject: Re: UniNorth Bridge chip
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
From: Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@iqmail.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/14/2000 02:43:19
Just curious,

Is the UniNorth Bridge the Motorola MPC107, or an entirely different chipset?

Thanks
Sanjay

Dan Winship wrote:

> > Our pci code (and I think Linux's also) doesn't support that. I spoke with
> > Jason, though, and the alpha PCI code has supported that since day 1. So
> > we can get things working with native (non RTAS) pci support. :-)
>
> Until the next time Apple switches PCI chipsets, at which point,
> LinuxPPC would already work with it, and we'd need to add more hacks.
>
> Plus, adding RTAS support also wins us nvram access and the ability to
> beep. :)
>
> -- Dan