On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Joseph Smith joe@settoplinux.org wrote:
Just curious, with all the support from AMD, how come no one ever ventured down the Athlon XP road? Athlon XP setups are very cheap these days, possibly making development cost effective???
The Athlon XP, and most/all chipsets supporting it, are EOL, therefore not a good option from a manufacturer design standpoint, so I wouldn't expect someone to contract a port any time soon. AMD is making the best of their available resources by supporting the K8 and AMD690 chipset, which had not reached EOL when work started on the port but I think it may have now. Also, the K7 datasheets are not publically available (last I looked), probably because of details about whatever made them kick P4 ass back in the day :D The datasheets on Via KT333/400 chipsets are available online, but not from Via, so I'm not sure of their legallity (you would almost certainly not get that datasheet from Via themselves). I don't know if AMD has any of their K7 chipset docs available online.
-Corey