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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:27:47 +0200
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
From: Philippe Anel <xigh@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A note about AMD64 mainboards and Plan 9
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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.

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