E7205/E7505 support in 2.4
I'm thinking of upgrading the innards of my home machine, and currently I'm interested in using a motherboard based around the Granite Bay chipset (specifically, I looking at an Asus P4G8X).
I notice that 2.5 kernels now have explicit support for this chipset, while 2.4 don't seem to. So, if I ran a 2.4 kernel on such a machine, would it a) not work, b) work fine, or
c) work OK but not as well as it could do?
Widening the point somewhat, I notice messages on the list go by stating that motherboard such-and-such is stable/flaky under linux. Is there any list anywhere of known good/bad boards, chipsets, etc?
Stephen
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I notice that 2.5 kernels now have explicit support for this chipset, while 2.4 don't seem to. So, if I ran a 2.4 kernel on such a machine, would it a) not work, b) work fine, or
c) work OK but not as well as it could do?
The only part I'm aware of in 2.5 is the AGPGART support which recently got added. 2.4 lacks AGP3.0 support which this relies upon, so in 2.4 you'll get unaccelerated 3d (DRI won't work) unless you add the 2.4 patch that was posted a while back.
Jeff Hartmann has been working on agpgart silently all this time, and aparently has AGP3.0 patches for 2.4 pending, so it could turn around quite soon.
Dave
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