Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Mar 2009 13:29:45 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.29-rc7 2/2] x86: disallow DAC for MCP51 PCI bridge |
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> x86 is blacklisting DAC for everything VIA. :-)
I'd assume that comes from published docs given VIA actually publish stuff if you ask nicely. > > * MCP51 is a very old chipset at this point (it's circa 2005). Not > many machine would be running with >4GB memory to begin with. > > * Given the above and scarcity of DAC on most end user machines > (nothing on MCP51 does DAC by default), lack of reports isn't too > surprising. > > * The board doesn't have a 64bit connector. It can't be dodgy > connector and sil24 is known to behave well with DAC. The failure > being specific to the particular machine doesn't seem likely. > > I'll ping nvidia about it but I think your bar is too high.
I don't think wanting to see *two* examples is a high bar.
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