200M : SH3 Worse Connection Quality?

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

One theory advanced by Legacy1 in the VM forums is that the Intel-ATOM processor within the Puma-6 package goes into a sleep state via ACPI. It's logical but unlikely because the CPU, unless totally misconfigured, would not get the chance to go to sleep.

I tend to treat most things he says with caution. He's a Google-monster.

The code for the Puma 6 SoC would be written by Intel, so one broken should be all broken running that blob. It'll be delivered as a binary blob to VM et al.

I'm not sure what the data path is on the Puma SoC, I presume specialist hardware handles most of the packet transport rather than relying on CPU. The Atom isn't exactly abundant with power, could just have better things to do.

[techguyone]

I'd hoped since the days of shub1 (which I still have) that subsequent ones would have ironed out those faults.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by techguyone

I'd hoped since the days of shub1 (which I still have) that subsequent ones would have ironed out those faults.

Unfortunately it's not so cut and dry - the later hubs basically use different internals, so you have to write a lot of the code all over again.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Unfortunately it's not so cut and dry - the later hubs basically use different internals, so you have to write a lot of the code all over again.

As we all know VM are good a writing code (or having their code written for them).

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Unfortunately it's not so cut and dry - the later hubs basically use different internals, so you have to write a lot of the code all over again.

Well if the code is well structured* they should only need to rewrite the HAL which shouldn't be too onerous.

*Of course it might be a load of dingo's kidneys in there.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Well if the code is well structured* they should only need to rewrite the HAL which shouldn't be too onerous.

*Of course it might be a load of dingo's kidneys in there.

Unfortunately, I don't think it works like that, the issues they have seem to be lower level, driver-style issues they rely on intel/pace/etc. to resolve.