From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Clayton, Mark" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Problem booting Linux on MPC8XXFADS From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:26:53 EST." <076236BAE727D611943F00508BA0F95908DAD0@XOVER.dedham.mindspeed.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:46:43 +0100 Message-Id: <20020326134648.063CD10A15@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Dear Mark, in message <076236BAE727D611943F00508BA0F95908DAD0@XOVER.dedham.mindspeed.com> you wrote: > > > There are alternative solutions. Just divide the price for another > > board (stable hardware with full Linux support) by your hourly rate > > and you probably already now wasted money on the FADS... > > If all decisions were left up to us engineers, then it would be this simple > :) Usually even a manager does understand the terms "time" and "money". If this is not enough, whisper something about "market window" :-) Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." - Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/