[coreboot] Good v3 port candidate for Socket F

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 20:39:08 CET 2008


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:44 AM,  <joelr at tyan.com> wrote:
> All the AMD Socket F designs are basically going to be the same.  You
> have a CPU that contains the Northbridge chipset that has a HT link to
> the 2nd CPU.  From the 2nd CPU you then have a HT link that takes you to
> your southbridge chipset and all the PCI, PCI-X or PCI-E slots.
>
> The only difference between Broadcom or NVIDIA would be how many memory
> slots may or may not be tied directly to each CPU.

Sorry I missed this last time I read it.  You're right, this is what's
important to me.  I need SATA directly from Socket 2.

It looks like s4985 would work too if the IO55 chip were supported.

Thanks,
Myles




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