ah Mike is at it again ......
The VIA Southbridge (used in millions of PCs and also Peg) issues have been well documented,
a) the SB used in the Peg does NOT share "the" VIA-bug, but still it had the
same probs as the A1, till those were fixed with April.
b) "the" VIA-bug is well documented, and easy to fix, but still it took >1 year
to do so.
Looking at all available info I came to this conclusion
(most positive version for the red side):
All VIA-SBs out of that era act a bit out of spec. An issue that never made
problems with x86-NBs.
But is a prob for the Articia.
What does this mean ? The articia IS buggy !
Why ?
Because it was MAI who choosed to build a chip that would rely on older
VIA-chips, while VIA sees those chips as end-of-life and won't even bother
for such small numbers as used in PPC-projects.
It was MAI's responsibilty to make sure their chip work with the line of
SBs they have choosen to support, and the ArticiaS has been available
since late 2000 (atleast) (in engineering samples).
Makes you wonder how long they'll take till they get the ArticiaP really ready,
since even the samples are allready > 1year late (and counting).
"proffesional testing"
Some guy running something undisclosed and stating that it was fast
isn't really worth anything ....
Send a board to c't or similar, and you will get real results (assuming they
would have any interest in such a test that is).
Alan should better keep the eggs to himself, as he had his own share in the
FUD and "look how stupid I am comments" department
:-P
