10 Questions for MAI, developers of AmigaOne/Teron.

[Kronos]

@Henning

The VT8231 in it's current (latest) revision
does not have any critical bugs, perfoms just
as good (if not better) than the 686B (with a
SW-based bugfix), offers more features and uses
less power.

But no no no, that is not the true path and
most therefore be wrong  :-P

[hnl_dk]

@Kronos

As far as I remember (from IA32), the VT8231 has/had at least a voltage problem, and has/had the same DMA problems, as the VT82C686B is told to have.

[iamaboringperson]

 :-o
no wonder some people are having trouble getting their amigaones!

mai is still surrounded
mai is set in the midlands by a moat

[takemehomegrandma]

vortexau wrote:
They don't seem to be very well known outside of the Amiga community:

Googlism "Who is MAI?"
Googlism for: mai

Googlism for: takemehomegrandma

Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about takemehomegrandma yet.


... yeah, that "googlism" is really a worthful resource!  :-P  :-D

[iamaboringperson]

http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=amigaone&type=1 :-D

[olegil]

Googlism for: olegil

olegil is one lucky man
olegil is standi ng here
olegil is standing here
olegil is dead
olegil is mortally wounded

Hehe. 4 out of 5 (really 3 out of 4, one space doesn't make a summer swallow. Or something) is from roleplaying where someone has posted logs to their webpage. The last comes from a quote around September, I think. Of course, the major part of hits on Google for my name are Norwegian pages, so won't fit that well with googlism :-)

[Kronos]

@hnl_dk

Yeap the 1st revision had the same probs as the
686B, but since the the 8231 was brand new and
targeted for high-price-devices (laptops) while the
686 was allready on its way out they fixed the 8231.

You won't find a "VIA_DMA_bug" in any Pegasos.

It may also be that the 8231 is a bit harder use
for the HW-engineer, but that isn't "our" prob.

[asian1]

>SMP Question

Hello
AMD had announced that their chipset for Opteron is "stackable" / sizeable for more than 2 CPU SMP.
As an example: 2 CPU with 1 chipset IC, 4 CPU with 2 chipset ICs, 6 CPU with 3 chipset ICs etc.

Is it possible for MAI to design and create future PowerPC chipsets with similar capability?

[SlimJim]

Googlism

slimjim is a level 51 necromancer and going strong

There you have it.
.
SlimJim

[JurassicCamper]

iamaboringperson wrote:
 :-o
no wonder some people are having trouble getting their amigaones!

mai is still surrounded
mai is set in the midlands by a moat

/me puts on my long lost brummy accient.

Bl**dy typical that... people in the midlands always get sh@fted.

[Darth_X]

1.. How many employees does MAI have?
2.. Who does the manufacturing for MAI or is it in house?

[Ferry]

@Kronos

Yeap the 1st revision had the same probs as the
686B, but since the the 8231 was brand new and
targeted for high-price-devices (laptops) while the
686 was allready on its way out they fixed the 8231.

I don't want to start another flame thread, but only a clarification.

I have found this statement in a Linux forum, in a message from a systems engineer
to someone working at SuSe Labs:

(http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.1/0660.html)

"686 rev 40/41 and VT8231 rev 10/11 have the PCI corruption bug!"

What does this exactly mean? What revision of VT8231 is used on the Pegasos?

Ferrán