Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [POLITICAL] Re: ECS k7s5a audio sound SiS 735 - 7012 | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:40:39 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So you would have preferred, for example, to have dozens of different > drivers for SYM53C8XX chips and probably as many for Adaptec aic7xxx on= > es.
The problem with tulip clones is a bit different. Imagine if each SYS53C8XX chip had ten clone versions that each understood 90% of the official instruction set and had different magically unique bugs some of which were not documented.
Dealing with things like GPIO variants, LED wiring, custom NVRAM is a bit cleaner. The very core of the tulip clones is variable
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