[Forum] Articia: Still DMA-problems? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-May-2003 11:16 GMT by Senex | 122 comments View flat View list |
From a news-item at VGR.com it appears that the current Articia-northbridges might still have DMA-related problems:
"Mr. S.W. who sends over screen shots of newer AmigaOne 800mhz G4 hardware, has sent over 2 screen shots of the new A1 with G4 running 'amigaone xe/g4 7451 800mhz, excalibur radeon 9000 pro 64mb ddr ram, valueram kvr133x72rc3/256 kingston'. He wants to know '.. if other aone users have that problem as well..', 'it never outputs the same checksum with dma enabled when testing an iso file which is larger than the swap space used'
You can see the Radeon 9000 Pro screen shots here: DMA On & DMA Off."
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Posted by Remco komduur on 22-May-2003 07:22 GMT | In reply to Comment 93 (Kjetil): No, it's not OK but it is inevitable. A company can not go on and keep testing and testing and testing to get everything 100% working. If that would be the case then one after the other company would go belly up in the hardware/software business. Whether that is chip/processor/motherboard/OS/game or whatever else. A problem might also have slipped to your attention.
There commes a point when you have to market the product because you need a positive cash flow. Top programmers and hardware researchers are very expensive people and the equipment usually too.
As for your example, it might not work now. They just need to implement a good patch in the Linux driver.
What I find unfair here is that you people expect Eyetech/Mai stop delivering the AmigaOne to fix that problem whilst this *never* happens with PC-hardware.
Did you see Intel put a stop on delivering when the Pentium showed a severe bug, Via and all mobo manufacturers when the 686B showed a problem, Ali when the Aladdin 5 showed severe AGP problems, Amd when the first Athlon showed it was very unstable? No, because if they do, they would have gone belly up and you wouldn't have that very nice AthlonXP with it's good price/performance ratio that continuously makes Intel keep lowering their price.
I know some people would very much like to see a full stop in delivery but it's not a big problem and is a Linux problem at the moment. Some programmers from the OS 4 team might even fix that for you which they don't even have to do because Linux is not their business. |
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