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Firmware is always buggy

• dazzawazza 14y ago
  The best thing about firmware is that it's often interacting with other buggy firmware. All of whom are implementing poorly defines 'standards' within tight budgets (monetarily, power and cycles). Having said that I enjoy that kind of work (writing and interfacing with). Having spent many years in assembly for video games it doesn't phase me at all.
• olgeni 14y ago
  Back in the old days I had to write a firmware for an ISA board using the IAR C compiler (where changing comment text could break the build) and I used to feel dizzy even without drugs...
• ChuckMcM 14y ago
  Perhaps what is more insidious is that you don't always realize that there is firmware in there. I mean chipsets where there is a processor in the chipset running emulation code to make certain things behave like they did when they were implemented by the 286/AT, its firmware all the way down.