Re: Info on Intel Plumas E7500 support

[Alan Cox]

> 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