Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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My guess is it sets the bus speed to 50 Mhz for the IDE controller, possibly fixing some timing problems which shouldn't be there in the first place.
I have a motherboard with some ITE chipset IDE RAID and serial ATA, but I didn't have any drivers for any of that in any of the Linux distros I had handy at the time so I threw in a PCI promise IDE controller and was able to quickly build a RAID this morning. I wish chipset manufacturers could offer some backwards compatibility or Linux drivers offerred more forward compatibility or something.
I agree with the post above, I don't want to be a beta tester, again. I just want things to work out of the box. Is that so much to ask for? I mean we give everyone full access to the source code, including drivers for all their old hardware. What more do they need? And who's fault is this? Ours? For running any OS other than Microsoft Windows?