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Offline zee4Topic starter

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Marvell and Mai Logic working towards PPC970 support?
« on: June 20, 2003, 04:58:16 PM »
Work is underway to allow controllers to work with the PPC970: arstechnica reports.

Does this mean we'll be running PPC970s (or G5's in Apple-speak)? See The Register for that story :)

To take advantage of the performance of the 970, "IBM is working to ensure that gcc will generate code optimized for 970". That's good news for anyone using the gcc compiler.


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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2003, 05:19:06 PM »
?????

Where did you read "MAI"

?????
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1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2003, 05:35:34 PM »
"..."
* IBM is actively talking "to memory controller vendors with representatives in this room (Mai Logic and Marvell were exhibiting) and others, who will vend controllers supporting at least dual CPUs."
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2003, 05:57:35 PM »
If is it true..is a great news !
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2003, 06:10:39 PM »
This could be very great... :-D  :-D
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2003, 06:14:39 PM »
The cat is out of the bag.
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2003, 06:20:18 PM »
Dang, I hate it when that happens. I bet someone worked REAL heard getting an angry cat into a bag...

I'm allergic to cats, so I'm _not_ gonna try to get it back in there.

Oh, you meant metaphorically? ;-)
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2003, 06:24:01 PM »
For both parties.  Don't forget the second company mentioned there, Marvell.
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2003, 06:26:05 PM »
@HyperionMP

"The cat is out of the bag."

That would be great, but I can hardly believe it.
I think the cat is released to scratch some
"bad" posters faces.

You really really mean it?
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2003, 06:33:20 PM »
Mai support 970 when they couldn't even support G3's properly? :lol:
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2003, 06:37:58 PM »
Kennyr: well it woudl be a kinda quantum leap. But in theory it's possible.

Personally I belive a lot more capabilities of Marvell, they have lot of experience of high speed serial bus:es (like Gigaether and SATA) and a provenly working DDRram controller and MPX support on their existing chipset.

But we'll see what happens. Anyway this is coog chance for PPC to become efficient enough to realisticly compete with X86.
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2003, 06:38:04 PM »
@KennyR

You basing an opinion upon knowledge of one chipset.   Would you mind giving me names of a company who hasn't had any bugs in chipsets?
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2003, 06:39:57 PM »
well, OS4 needs to get done first for any of this to matter.... otherwise you'll just have yet another expensive LinuxOne with no OS4..
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #13 on: June 20, 2003, 06:50:49 PM »
OS 4? Oh ya, that thing, almost forgot about it. :)

 This could definatly be some good news, though I am wondering how many thousand dollars it will cost. :/
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Re: Mai Logic working on PPC970 support?
« Reply #14 on: June 20, 2003, 07:13:59 PM »
Quote
The cat is out of the bag.



Eh ?!?

 :-o
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