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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:17:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A52DB1.30306@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A521A0.9050205@wolfmountaingroup.com>

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually 
> break non-windows platforms with new incompatible
> hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT 
> which are not backward compatible with the older chipsets.

I presume you mean breaking /windows/ platforms?

As I noted, Linux often supports the hardware from the "big" hardware 
vendors before Windows does.

They use Linux as a "rabbit" to push Microsoft into supporting 
something, with the "Linux supports it already" argument.

	Jeff



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-10 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-09 20:46 SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18 Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 20:51 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 21:39   ` Auke Kok
2007-01-09 22:11     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 22:59 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-09 23:35   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-09 23:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-09 23:34   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-10  0:25     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-10  0:13       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-10 14:39       ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 14:58         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-10 15:15           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 17:29         ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-01-10 17:47           ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 17:25             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2007-01-10 17:58               ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 18:17               ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-01-10 17:56             ` Prakash Punnoor
2007-01-10 18:00               ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-10 18:19               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-01-10 18:33                 ` Prakash Punnoor
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     [not found]         ` <fa.knaXdjvwhsPCFpF5idaEG5sHhcM@ifi.uio.no>
2007-01-10 22:50           ` Robert Hancock

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