On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:22:54PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> 
> > 
> > There are pure-AMD boards (the multiprocessor ones,
> > because the VIA southbridge doesn't work in multiprocessor configurations),
> 
> Well, the south bridge is just a PCI device!  All a multiprocessor

Not exactly.  A few south bridges may be "just" PCI devices, but in most
cases the northbridge/southbridge protocol diverges from straight PCI in
at least a few significant ways, and in newer northbridge/southbridge pairs
while the protocol may be PCI-like, it's definitely not PCI; different
signaling levels, clock rates, etc.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud