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From: Philippe Anel <xigh@free.fr>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A note about AMD64 mainboards and Plan 9
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:27:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.0.20040617141818.0251b3c8@pop.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040617100147.GA25421@0xfe.org>

At 12:01 PM 6/17/2004, you wrote:
>For anyone thinking about running Plan 9 on an AMD64 mainboard,
>ensure that you don't purchase a mainboard with the VIA VT800
>chipset. The VIA VT800 chipset is not supported by Plan 9 at
>this time. Unless you plan to write a driver for it.

What's wrong with this chipset ?
I've bought an Acer Aspire 1502 notebook with a KT800 chipset inside,
and beside the broadcom ethernet (and wifi) missing drivers, it runs
Plan9 quite fine.

         Philippe,

Ps: Note to jmk: I can't reply to your private email.

<jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com>: host plan9.bell-labs.com[204.178.31.2] said: 554 we
     believe this is spam.  we don't accept it. (in reply to end of DATA
     command)
Reporting-MTA: dns; postfix4-1.free.fr
Arrival-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:11:31 +0200 (CEST)




  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-17 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-17 10:01 Vester Thacker
2004-06-17 12:27 ` Philippe Anel [this message]
2004-06-17 12:40   ` Vester Thacker
2004-06-17 12:30 ` Vester Thacker
2004-06-17 14:28   ` ron minnich

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