Re: VIA chipsets all bad? I think not.

Division by Zero (paradox@paradox.paradoxisp.net)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 07:00:20 -0400 (EDT)

> What actually appears to be happening is that Linux is being optimised
> more and more to the behavior of specific processors and chipsets.
> (Closer to the metal.) While this is the only way to get optimal
> performance out of the new features offered by the latest processors
> and chipsets, there is a great danger in this --- we may be painting
> ourselves into a corner where Linux is totally unusable on the next
> generation of cheap off-the-shelf computers. (I notice more and more
> usenet articles complaining about installation disks unable to boot on
> the latest computers (K6-2/300-350 3DX lately --- and no helpful
> followup articles posted that I have noticed so far.)

I agree completely. I was humiliated when the Redhat installation disk
(2.0.34 I believe) would not boot on one of the machines we were selling
to a customer. We ended up putting NT instead.
The machine was a Packard Bell dual P333's (actually it had one in
at the time of trying to install, other hadn't arrived yet), 27 GIG
SCSI drives, 640 MB ram, totally hot-swap able....but linux wouldn't
boot!!!

Regards,
Dave

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