> > mobo vendors, but it includes licensed stuff, and also secret > > workarounds to hardware bugs in lots of devices. > > Why does a workaround to a hardware bug have to be secret? Just > curious.....Aren't hardware bugs published in errata regularly?
It's not that it has to be a secret, it's that vendors don't want the public to know. Ideally they'd all appear in errata. In practice, vendors tell some of the bugs only to M$ and BIOS vendors under NDA. And then Linux people wonder why the device doesn't work very well under Linux. Some devices don't have any public errata, some have partial lists, for some you think the public list is complete, but... -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
