Quoting Steven Stallion <sstall...@gmail.com>:
Clearly you've never worked on hardware.
No, thank Christ, my conscience is clean. Instead I work on software, and uboot is a fine example of "well it builds on my laptop" development paradigms. Plenty glad I don't have to screw with such nonsense any more, and even more glad the company I work for has got out of the habit of compensating for bad hw designs by spackling things over with "it builds, ship it" code. khm