On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:37:58PM +0100, Mipam wrote:

 > onboard stuff (ie ide controller and onboard lan controller (if its
 > onboard anyway)) is connected by the pcibus anyway, so it doesnt really
 > matter whether you got onboard stuff or not concerning the speed.
 > Is this still true that most of the onboard stuff (ide controller, scsi
 > controller, lan controller, audio (if onboard)) if connected to the pci
 > bus anyway?

Correct, on PCs, any high-speed peripherals that are on-board are going
to be connected to PCI anyay.

 > Or an smp machine with a pci bus for each processor would be even more
 > convenient then? Any suggestions towards this and perhaps some hints for
 > reading on this?

You're not likely to find a "PCI bus for each processor" because such
a configuration wouldn't really help anything -- you're not likely to
have a set of disks for each processor, for example.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>