From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263101AbUAXXPs (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:15:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263107AbUAXXPs (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:15:48 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:64994 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263101AbUAXXPq (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:15:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16402.64412.577682.141249@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 10:11:24 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Jeff Garzik , Manfred Spraul , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2.4] forcedeth network driver In-Reply-To: <20040124224635.GA3448@ucw.cz> References: <4012BF44.9@colorfullife.com> <4012D3C6.1050805@pobox.com> <20040124220545.GA3246@ucw.cz> <4012F2B7.3080800@gmx.net> <20040124224635.GA3448@ucw.cz> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vojtech Pavlik writes: > Well, my memory may be tricking me (I'm not really sure about this), but > I remember there was supposed to be a PPC64 northbridge with a HT link, > made exactly for the purpose of connecting an nForce southrbridge to it. > But it definitely is not in production yet. The U3 northbridge in the Apple G5 powermac has a HT link coming out of it, which connects via an AMD PCI-X tunnel chip to an Apple K2 southbridge. I have never heard of anyone using (or planning to use) an nForce southbridge on a PPC64 system though. Regards, Paul.