On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:03:08PM +0200, Ernest jw ter Kuile wrote: > On Friday 05 October 2007, Karl Schmidt wrote: > > I've been using AMD processors on my last few systems, but I talked to a > > friend of mine that > > does hardware work. His take is that Intel is more open about the hardware > > specifications > > than most anyone in the business including AMD and thus supports Linux > > developers better. > > > > If this is true, I might go back to using Intel on Tyan MBs > > Actually both have a good track in supporting Linux. If you want some > examples look > at the news not too long ago: after AMD took over ATI graphic cards AMD > promised and > delivered the specs of the ATI graphical chips (ATI did not really help Open > Source at all > before they were part of AMD). Before that AMD told that they estimated that > Opteron > would never have sold as much as it did by a very large margin without Linux, > which > was why they could so easily see the benefit of supporting it.
I heard that AMD had Linux running on the AMD64 before they had even built the first chip. They used it on a simulator to debug the specs for the supervisor-state instructions. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
