From: Adrian Cox <adrian@humboldt.co.uk>
To: Matt Porter <mporter@mvista.com>
Cc: mod+linuxppc-dev@mclx.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: PPC+southbridge designs
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:14:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BC716D2.6020902@humboldt.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20011012050917.A15738@cx258813-a.chnd1.az.home.com
Matt Porter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:37:27AM -0400, mod+linuxppc-dev@mclx.com wrote:
>>How many existing PPC-based machines incorporate one
>>of those kitchen-sink southbridge chips like the VIA
>>VT82C686B that are normally found in x86-based machines?
> A lot of them. Hardware developers for high-end PPC embedded designs
> like them as a way to get UARTs, PIC, and IDE in one dirt-cheap package.
> Software developers hate them because they are evil.
Once they've used them once, the hardware engineers think they're evil
as well. But I did get a 7410 system with a Via 686a up and running the
2.4-devel kernel. I think all the necessary fixes have percolated into
the main tree, except for one MIDI fix which is only in Alan Cox's kernel.
--
Adrian Cox http://www.humboldt.co.uk/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-12 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-12 13:37 PPC+southbridge designs mod+linuxppc-dev
2001-10-12 12:09 ` Matt Porter
2001-10-12 16:14 ` Adrian Cox [this message]
2001-10-12 19:40 ` Timothy A. Seufert
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2001-10-12 15:30 Michael Sokolov
2001-10-12 16:00 Michael Sokolov
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