Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: outrigger motherboard and i840 locking at PCI Probing | Date | 4 Aug 2000 13:45:06 -0700 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007312356080.20070-100000@base.torri.linux> By author: Stephen Torri <s.torri@lancaster.ac.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > It really make me think that we are getting sloppy in what we create > (hardware,software,etc.) when it is assumed all products are not bug free. >
The PC industry is hideously sloppy... "it boots Windows -- ship it." It's part of why writing an operating system is very difficult -- you have to work around everyone else's bugs.
For what it's worth, the single most buggy set of software I have ever run across is Intel's PXE network booting stack, and Intel wrote the spec. The spec is broken too, incidentally. > > > > PCI is PCI. Intel was one of those that wrote the rules. It is unlikely > > > that they would market a bad chip. However, check to see what your > > > > Their PCI chips have bugs just like everyone elses. > >
-hpa -- <hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt
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