Re: Linux Incompatibility List

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Aug 22, 2004, at 02:36, Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault wrote:
> My dad had a thing like that(quick reference card) for an old motorola 
> 6800(not 68000) processor. It only had 2 8-bit general purpose 
> registers if I remember correctly. Doesn't even begin to compare with 
> modern ppc processors.

Hey! I built a primitive computer from one of those in a microprocessor 
class a year ago.  2 8-bit registers, 8-bit data-bus and 16-bit address 
bus.  There were two interrupt pins, IRQ and NMI, and a simple 
condition code register.  The CPU clock is the same as the bus clock.  
What fun!!!

> Good idea, we should have something like two lists one for "chips" and 
> one for "containers of chips" aka whole systems. That way it could be 
> cross-referenced in a database-like way with a nice gtk frontend. The 
> project probably ressemble the pci-ids project. That would pave the 
> way for a free(as in speech) hardware purchasing guide.

A well designed guide could go a long way toward convincing companies 
to release specs.  When a well known hardware website has user 
testimonials that the drivers suck, the tech support are unhelpful, and 
the company just doesn't get it, said company will probably tend to 
listen.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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