Question for A1 dev board customers.

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I'm not a A1 developer, but...

I expect A1XEs to be sold to end users, starting in 2Q/2003.

(I expect also AOS4 to be sold to end users during this year...)

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Argo wrote:
The inital version of the chipset had its bugs, but they don't seem to be show stopping like Bill Buck seem to make them out to be. We haven't seen A1 owner ranting left and right that their new A1 boards don't work or work as expected. "There is no MAI without April", to me me would imply show stopping faults in the chip.

I tend to believe that Genesi did not "underclock" the CPU/memory bus to 100Mhz just for fun. They clearly have had some real problems.

But yes, it's interesting that we have not yet seen the flaw to affect A1.

 Where were the Pegasos users that should have been ranting about there broken boards? ....

They all get their boards replaced twice for free.
(April1 to get rid of some DMA bugs and now to April2 to get the 133Mhz bus etc...)

Then again didn't Red ask about the A1. Lets get back on topic.

Oh, right!

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@JoannaK
>Besides.. it's well known fact that current Fixes on Articia-s (one that's been under tests at Hyperion and Mai) are based on work Carda did last summer/fall.

Do you happen to have any reference to the information?
I originally thought that Carda just pointed out where/how the bug is seen, but what else he did?

>If that bug had been on Pagsos mobo, there would have been no need to update Mai chips...

I think the non-registered RAM support was coming anyway... IIRC, new ArtisiaS was to be made later in 2003 anyway (no, I do not have any link).

There must be also more than that, I think, as April2 is needed before peg1 FSB reaches 133Mhz.

Where/when should the ArtisiaS bug's appear in A1SE machines that users now have running with 133Mhz FSB?