David Leimbach wrote:
All of this begins to remind me why I normally don't muck around in OS
kernels. It's so really not fun or interesting to deal with the
braindead-ness of hardware.
it's not all bad. USB was a trainwreck from day one. But there's
infiniban- oh, wait, that's kind of icky too. Well, there's always
BlueToot -- oh, wait, I'm told that makes USB look sane.
well, still, you still shouldn't give up so easily.
Ah, then, maybe chipset work? You could work with the chipsets and --
oh, wait, vendors won't let you see them. Hmm. Well, they're kinda ugly
anwyay.
Well, there's the busses! Yes, the busses! check out PCI-E, which does
ARQ in hardware! Now there's some fun -- oh, no, it's not fun at all,
Forgive me, I forgot. And, I am told, it has just as high latency as
PCI-X, because of all the extra glop that got added to support ARQ in
hardware. Hmm.
Well, if you don't want to do hardware, consider the low-level software
stuff that vendors are pushing, like EFI and ACPI, they're really pretty
nic -- oh, wait, they're awful.
ah, hmm. Well! this is interesting. I'm putting my life into stuff that
sucks. What am I doing here?
I shoulda gone to work for a railroad. If you get mad at something on
the railroad, you get to hit it with a spike hammer (I learned this from
experience). Although at times I would like to hit a computer with a
spike hammer. Spike hammers have a nice heft to them, and would leave a
nice round hole in most computers -- metal cases are no problem.
Or maybe be a window washer! ".... a window washer me ..."
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