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SubjectRe: outrigger motherboard and i840 locking at PCI Probing
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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
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