Subject: Re: StrongARM replacement, 20 names on my list
To: Chris Manning <chrism@spuddy.mew.co.uk>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/02/1998 02:30:18
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Chris Manning wrote:

> In message <Marcel-1.46-0930081500-0b0+YEw@kjetilbt.eunet.no>
>           "Kjetil B. Thomassen" <kjetil@thomassen.priv.no> wrote:
> 
> > I have done a new count of the names on my list of people who may
> > be interested in getting their SA-110 J/K replaced with an S/T.
> > I now have 20 names on my list.
> 
> My understanding of what I've read in the Acorn newsgroups is that
> the version of RISC-OS that was to have been supplied with Phoebe
> requires a rev T StrongARM.
> 
> I guess there's not much chance of seeing that OS now, but I can see
> little point in upgrading to a rev S processor.
Hi,
  There is a bug in the rev S silicon that prompted the rev T version.
This bug though is very rare. If folks are getting there processors
upgraded I would expect them to be upgraded to rev T.
I believe folks like Simtec now use rev T for example.

Cheers,
				Mark