Subject: PCI Interfaces
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Gruhn's account <tgruhn2@mail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/24/2001 08:34:48
Yesterday Bill O'Neill wrote:
>I really wanted to try the Promise Ultra/100TX2 due to its capability to use
>the 66MHZ PCI interface and also the Intel PRO/1000T due to its using both
>the 64-bit and 66MHZ PCI interface, but I understand someone has to write
>support for these.
I recall having a discussion about a 64bit graphics card (Matrox Mill II).
I was told that what made it a 64bit card was the presence of 64bit registers,
and that all PCI slots pass 32b data. Can someone enlighten me here...
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