>
> > I recently got a quote from a hardware vendor which made the following
> > claim:
> >
> > > All Socket 370PGA Motherboards use either the 810 or [the] 810c chip
> > > set which does not support FreeBSD because 16MB of the motherboard
> > > memory is used for the display controller. There is no way to tell
> > > the FreeBSD kernel not to use this memory so it will corrupt data.
> >
> > I find this statement rather dubious. Can anyone out there say with
> > more certainty?
>
> I can say with certainty that there are S370PGA boards that don't use the
> 810; we have a number inhouse here that use the 440BX for example.
>
> I'd be quite surprised if the 16MB shared video aperture wasn't correctly
> described by the PnP data; this may require 4.x or 3.x with VM86 defined
> to deal with it "right". If nobody else has any commentary on this,
> we'll get one into the lab.
>
I'm using a Socket 370 board with a 440ZX and one with a 440BX, they both
work fine... I've got an 810c and an 810e that I'll try later today.
Kevin
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