7450 bugs & fixes
Timothy A. Seufert
tas at mindspring.com
Sat Dec 1 08:52:18 EST 2001
At 11:46 AM +0100 11/30/01, Holger Bettag wrote:
>Giuliano Pochini <pochini at shiny.it> writes:
>
>>
>>
>> > 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.
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Tim Seufert
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