On Mon Dec 1 20:00:59 PST 2014, k...@sciops.net wrote: > 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.
while i don't agree that u-boot is nice, i do agree with steve's point, which i understood to be that hardware is messy, and it's hard to write software that isn't a tad messy to deal with this. steve has a lot of experience with hardware, and knows what he's talking about. - erik
