linux-kernel - Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:17:21 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com>
CC:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>,
	Linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash
 IDE chip under 2.6.18

Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually 
> break non-windows platforms with new incompatible
> hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT 
> which are not backward compatible with the older chipsets.

I presume you mean breaking /windows/ platforms?

As I noted, Linux often supports the hardware from the "big" hardware 
vendors before Windows does.

They use Linux as a "rabbit" to push Microsoft into supporting 
something, with the "Linux supports it already" argument.

	Jeff


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