On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 11:35 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> Is the new way taking out what used to be called a northbridge or southbridge chip or both chips? <SNIP>
Not exactly taking out but rather repartitioning. Much of what used to be in the North Bridge, such as the memory interface, is now to a great extent in the processor. The general idea of the South Bridge originally was to interface to customer centric interfaces like PCI slots, USB and networking. That all still exists but the interface back to the processor has changed with a lot of it becoming high speed serial specs which reduce the number of pins on the processor. > > Thanks for the info. I was wondering where you were. _-O > I'm still here. Just don't post much as I'm not a Gentoo user and figure I have little to offer until a thread like this comes up. I used to do chip architecture for AMD, mostly South Bridge I/O stuff when it was still primarily in California. Those are now very much the old days through. Cheers, Mark
