Marvell and Mai Logic working towards PPC970 support?

[KennyR]

Glad to see you're even less of a chipset expert, Kurt. AGP is nothing more than PCI with stricter timing. Direct support in the memory controller chip for AGP is totally irrelevant to the end-user, and only important from the design stage. What isn't irrelevant is Articia-S's fatal bugs and its lack of DDR support, and of course Mai's total unwillingness to admit any bugs until IBM stepped in. Regardless of the Articia-S features, its bugs make it useless crap anyway.

The difference between FUD and non-FUD is fact. That makes you technically more than a fudder than myself. Have a nice day, soldier-boy.

[Terminills]

@KennyR


You're still basing information on one chipset.  Frankly I haven't seen any problems with the Artica P yet.  :-D

[downix]

@Terminills

Could be because they have not fabbed the Articia-P yet.  They have not even fabbed the Articia-Sa yet, which is the intermediate step *to* the Articia-P.

Hard to find bugs in vaporware.

[Terminills]

@downix

It's been available since April 19th in samples  :-D

:edit:

I've never seen solid vaporware before thanks for informing me tho...    :-D

[downix]

I've seen plenty.  Might I mention the MCC, Walker, A3000+, all vaporware, but still physically existed.

Considering how long it took the Articia-S to go from samples to production....

[Terminills]

@downix


I'll let ya know when I put my order in how bout that?  :-D

[AmiGR]

*COOL*!
They sampled the ArticiaP more than *2* years late.
Now what? Wait a year to get it into production? :-)

[Terminills]

@AmiGR

Lates better then not at all.   :-D   and the 200 Mhz fsb is nice too  :-P

:edit:

Hell AMD was atleast 14 months late on the opteron and they're a much larger company.  ~shrug~

[downix]

What 200Mhz FSB?  I have the Articia-P's specs here, and it states quite clearly:

166Mhz FSB

It also states that sampling has not begun yet, but will shortly.  (from Mai's website at that)

[Terminills]

@downix

Different revision at the foundry  :-D


:edit:

you might want to get ahold of a sales rep I know I have.  :-D

:additional edit: lol

I asked specifically when I was deciding on a chipset.   if you like you can pmail me your email and I'll fwd the mail :-D

[downix]

Tell your sales rep that their site is quite outdated then.

I'd note, the Mai rep I delt with fed my old boss a bunch of baloney too.  (not Genesi I'm speaking of, I delt with Mai before in a contract)

[Terminills]

@downix

yes thier site is quite outdated.  They even have the magica line still up which they have no intention of producing.

[downix]

Well then that could explain it.

But I still have not been impressed yet with their designs.

[Terminills]

I won't know if I'm impressed till everything is complete.   But I am giving them the benifit of the doubt.   Until I know first hand.

[strobe]

If you want a Linux PPC 970 box, buy a blade.

[HyperionMP]

You will never be able to implement full AGP compliance with an AGP slot attached to a PCI-X slot.

I find all this Mai bashing also very amusing considering every Pegasos out there is using the old Articia and not even the new revision.

And not even using it fully BTW as the FSB is stuck at 100 Mhz for most boards.