Re: Info on Intel Plumas E7500 support

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 20:53:34 EST


> A customer of mine asked if RedHat 6.2 supported
> the new dual xeon e7500 chip set? After a search
> which resulted in very few hits, I was wondering
> if any Linux kernel supports this?

No idea. In general intel chipsets are fairly standards compliant and
forward/backward compatible. That should mean the IDE will either just
work as full UDMA or need a new PCI ident. It might want a new IRQ router
if you use it with stuff like cardbus or hotplug.

> Also anyone know if support for it will be backported
> to the 2.2 series?

Unlikely
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