On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 13:00:46 -0700 (MST), Ronald G. Minnich wrote:
On 8 Jan 2003, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
How LinuxBIOS friendly are the e7500/Xeons for LinuxBIOS? Any NDA issues like AMD MSRs or similar?
no nda issues whatsoever. Intel has been extremely helpful on this chipset. In fact there was a glitch a few months ago and Intel did what needed to be done to get it fixed.
Wow. thats quite a different story that what I got. Intel is so inconsistent sometimes. I tried to get the register documentation for the 440MX (note MX not BX which I already have) and not only do you have to be under the standard NDA you have to go get a under an extra double-dog-secret NDA which my Intel rep said "is quite difficult to get" So we bailed on the 440MX and are going to respin our BX version.
Any possibility you could put me in touch with your Intel contact? Perhaps he could shed some light on why the 440MX is so shrouded.
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