[News] What a PPC linux kernel hacker thinks about the Articia | ANN.lu |
Posted on 14-Jun-2004 23:52 GMT by JohnV | 68 comments View flat View list |
Here's what Benjamin Herrenschmidt, a respectable linuxPPC kernel hacker
thinks about the Articia.
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HREF="http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/06/msg00430.html">Here
is some interesting thread about the Articia. Note that Benjamin Herrenschmidt
is a clued linuxPPC kernel hacker with lot of
experience. Here's what he thinks about the Articia "features":
It's basically incompetent northbridge design.
No, that means the HW is a Piece Of Shit !
Cache coherency is a basic feature of anything claiming to be used as a
desktop machine.
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Posted by Don Cox on 15-Jun-2004 05:41 GMT | In reply to Comment 1 (not this again...): "Didn't we already cover this?? Fine. It doesn't work with linux. Move on and live with it. We're not USING linux!"
If Eyetech want to sell boards in any quantity, they have to have a working Linux. Trying to sell a non-standard board with an unknown OS is almost impossible. Customers will want to see something they are familiar with. |
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