Anyone know why the VIA Northbridge K8T890 in the SVN in the southbridge directory?
Why didn't the SiS 761GX make it into the SVN at all?
-Bari
bari wrote:
Anyone know why the VIA Northbridge K8T890 in the SVN in the southbridge directory?
Because it isn't really a northbridge. In an Intel system the northbridge contains the memory controller. So MC init code is in the northbridge directory. On AMD processors, the northbridge is integrated on in the CPU so you see CPU directories under the northbridge directory. The southbridge directory is used for chipsets like the K8T890 Hyptertransport tunnel with a PCIe bridge. Other examples of this are the AMD 8111/8131 and Broadcom 5780/5785.
Maybe we should consider renaming the directories to be more clear. northbridge -> memorycontroller southbridge -> chipsets
Why didn't the SiS 761GX make it into the SVN at all?
No idea, can you bump that patch thread?
Marc
Marc Jones wrote:
Maybe we should consider renaming the directories to be more clear. northbridge -> memorycontroller southbridge -> chipsets
And for more fun and confusion, single chip "chipsets" with integrated north-south bridges.
Such as the vx800 or cx700 that may make it to the public SVN one day
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/v-series/vx800/index.jsp
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/c-series/cx700m/index.jsp
-Bari
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