[Freedombox-discuss] [Arm-netbook] Single-Core Cortex A9 1ghz, ECC DDR3 RAM available soon

[Tim Small]

On 17/08/11 15:00, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Marvell is pretty good. Whether that is through Marvell's contribution
> or not I don't know, but in terms of what the end user gets to work
> with, it's seldom matched and hard to beat.

They are definitely better than some, but OTOH, they don't appear to
release any technical documentation at all without going through a
stupid NDA process, and I would summarise my recent dealings Marvell
regarding their AHCI SATA controllers like this:

me> Your hardware doesn't seem to work under these reproducible
circumstances

marvell> You must be doing something wrong

me> Here's a load more evidence

marvell> [silence]

me> Hello?

libata maintainer> Is this broken or what, because it looks broken? 
Should we disable this functionality on your controllers?

marvell> [silence]


They also only seem to release errata info very quietly and only under NDA.

WTF?

Tim.


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