>> Some time ago somebody (Mouse?) offered help with BIOS issues, >> rejected. > Do you have any idea much complex and how much undocumented knowledge > a BIOS contains ?
Actually, that it is undocumented is, I think, a major part of the problem. One of the major reasons I dislike peecees (which here I'm using in a very inclusive sense, including Soekris and everything else that uses the peecee BIOS paradigm) is that there is a lot of undocumented knowledge buried in places like the BIOS. Pragmatically, I don't really criticize Soren for turning down my offer of help. But it's a case of individual sanity yielding mass insanity; the state of the art as a whole would improve - everyone would be better off, possibly excepting those who depend on vendor lock-in, whom I would just as soon suffered - if BIOSes and everything necessary to write them were documented. Indeed, all BIOSes are of necessity rather Procrustean, forcing everyone to use the same thing; it would help numerous small groups - too small to be worth vendor attention - if they could create custom BIOSes for their purposes. No, I don't really think there's any chance of that happening, for various reasons, not least of which is the Prisoner's Dilemma involved. > Don't sounds like it if you think that somebody can just write a > better AHCI code than Intel with it's resources.... I don't think I can write better AHCI code than Intel _can_. I am fairly sure I can, given comparable levels of documentation, write better AHCI code than Intel _does_. There are perverse incentives operating. Intel has an incentive to write code that's as cheap, and therefore crappy, as possible without actually driving away customers; indeed, since they are publicly traded, they have a duty (to their shareholders) to do so. (For that matter, Soekris also has a similar incentive; my impression - and this is one of the reasons I like Soekris - is that its owners find that incentive ignorable compared to their desire to provide a good product to their customers.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
