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Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 07-Dec-2002 11:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 119 (Anonymous): ) Genesi added a hardware hack to circument some rumoured "bug", degrading performance by adding an additional step.
It's not a rumoured bug... It's quite a few reproducable bugs. And trust
Gerald Carda, he's a very good HW designed, the performance will not be
degraded... If the fixes are for the PCI stuff for example, the PCI bus
itself has 30ns latency, the chips will not slow it down...
People who talked about the rerouting of the lines, only needed stuff are
rerouted, and the length of the lines is not significant.
The Articia S on the pegasos is tilted by 45 degrees to ensure that all lines
have the same length and not to need yet another layer. I'm quite sure that
Gerald kept all lines at the same lenght with the fix as well.
) Apparently Mai cant be bothered to fix this "bug" (any time soon) - how serious is this "bug"?
Who told you they will not fix them? They will fix these bugs in the next
ArticiaS revision.
) Linux seems entirely unimpressed by this "bug" - how serious is this "bug"?
It's not unimpressed... See how the AmigaOne owners with the unfixed board
"fix" the DMA bug. Disabling ide DMA. And that's only one of the bugs.
) Genesi had to announce something before the weekend to raise interest and discredit the competitors product (umm, fud anyone?).
We'll see today. |
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