From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <8xu1vck03a.fsf@s62.informatik.uni-bremen.de> References: <8xu1vck03a.fsf@s62.informatik.uni-bremen.de> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:52:18 -0800 To: Holger Bettag , Giuliano Pochini From: "Timothy A. Seufert" Subject: Re: 7450 bugs & fixes Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: At 11:46 AM +0100 11/30/01, Holger Bettag wrote: >Giuliano Pochini writes: > >> >> >> > After reading the 7450 errata book, I'm now trying to figure out >> > what need to be done for our kernel to work properly on these. [...] >> >> :-(( >> I've never seen so many bugs in a mot cpu before. >> I hope they are not embracing the Intel's >>ship-things-asap-regardless-reliability style :( >> >To my knowledge, Apple is their only customer that actually delivered the >buggy revisions to end users. I guess it's not Motorola who's in a hurry. The 7450 was probably at least a year late (if not more), going by various Motorola announcements, roadmaps, MPF presentations, and so forth. I don't think Apple was supposed to get stuck using the 7400 for as long as they did. No doubt Apple put pressure on Motorola to deliver a shippable version (meaning one whose bugs Apple could remedy with workarounds) as soon as possible. -- Tim Seufert ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/