Giuliano Pochini [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
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.
Holger
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At 11:46 AM +0100 11/30/01, Holger Bettag wrote:
Giuliano Pochini [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
> 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
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