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Posted on 14-Jun-2004 23:52 GMT by JohnV68 comments
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Here's what Benjamin Herrenschmidt, a respectable linuxPPC kernel hacker thinks about the Articia. <A 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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What a PPC linux kernel hacker thinks about the Articia : Comment 34 of 68ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 15-Jun-2004 10:04 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Ben Hermans (Hyperion)):
>There are no problems with the MAI northbridge, in fact you will see os4 and the >linux kernal using the extra features that MAI provides.

In the post Benjamin Herrenschmidt clearly say that it _could_ work:

>_HOWEVER_, doing that in a northbridge for anything but an embedded CPU,
>especially a CPU of the 6xx/7xxx family is just insane. It's basically
>incompetent northbridge design

But that it's not smart at all, that's even "insane"

Ben Hermans: maybe you should stop lying to people ...
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