Sven Luther wrote: > So you think that the north-bridge could be an Apple-IBM common design ?
It's an Apple design. > The rest is not as important, as it is connected trough a HyperTransport > bus, so any HT chip will do. The funny thing is that they have a special > PCI-X bridge sitting between the north bridge and the super IO chip. I No. The "super-io chip" (a KeyLargo derivative) is connected to HT. > guess this one is just a off-the-shelve piece, while the IO chip is of Correct, the HT<->PCI-X bridges for the slots are AMD parts. > more common apple lineage. It has serial ATA, standard ATA for the I believe the serial ATA is a separate (non-Apple) part. > SuperDrive (this one is a guess), Correct. > USB 2.0, A separate, non-Apple part (hi Ben). > Firewire 800, I'm not sure about this. The FireWire 400 is the same as before, though. > networking and Still SUN GEM. > audio. Still TAS3004, but with added optical links. > Naturally, one could even build a PPC 970 motherboard with This > IBM/Apple northbridge, some PCI bridge, and Nvidia's HT connected > southbridges, not that we have much drivers for them though. Yes, but why? And engineering adequate cooling for the 970 seems to be non-trivial, to say the least... Segher
