Re: Dragonfly and Hyperthreading....

[Hummel Tom <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I just heard AMD bet on NVIDIA, this word was out from their mouth, if
> it was from a mag editor, I won't be that serious.

AMD said they bet in NVIDIA? weird... where did u find that?
just take it as marketing talk...

> YES, VIA is my favorite and will always be, but as I said AMD would
> like to bet on NVIDIA, this really forces me to leave AMD on SMP
> platform.

What makes you forget the AMD 8000 chipset so much? Which is doing a 
good job, i'd favour it over the VIA.

> But these chipsets are not used widely as VIA's, and you could get
> lots of trouble in open source world, either SATA will not work or
> USB not work, or ACPI won't work (NVIDIA always has this problem, and
> will continue the story.)

Yes maybe, however the AMD ones are support by e.g. SUN for Linux and 
Solarisx86, so i guess they should be used more often in the future.
S-ATA does not depend on the Chipset directly. Most boards use 3rd party 
SATA controllers, like the one from promise or whatever.

tom