fc1_x86_64 preview on tyan thunder k8w (S2885ANRF REV .03)

[Thomas Dodd]

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 4:56pm, Thomas Dodd wrote
>>Know which ones, if any, currently can? AMD, Nvidia, or VIA?
>>Why would they release a chip that couldn't?
> 
> 
> In my (limited) experience, I've only "lost" significant chunks of memory 
> on Tyan boards.  Here are the results of 'free' on two systems with 4GB of 
> RAM installed:
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       3688032    3258792     429240          0     105380    2519000
> -/+ buffers/cache:     634412    3053620
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       4012172    3476620     535552          0      67296    2975540
> -/+ buffers/cache:     433784    3578388
> 
> The first system is dual Athlon MPs on a Tyan S2466.  The second is
> dual Xeons on a Supermicro P4DPE.  For good measure, here's free from a 

Which chipsets are those? Not familiar with the individual boards, 
especially not ones for Intel CPUs.

> dual Opteron system with 8GB installed:
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       8070688     444488    7626200          0      99488     148820
> -/+ buffers/cache:     196180    7874508
> 
> That's the Arima/Rioworks HDAMA motherboard.  Given my past experiences 
> with Tyan and AMD chipsets (read: S2460 *shudder*), I specifically 
> requested that my vendor *not* use the Tyan MB in my Opteron systems.

So what chipset does that board use? I though all the early K8 boards 
used AMD chipsets. Anyone no more about the other K8 boards?
Especially workstation boards (dual opteron with AGP).

	-Thomas