On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how good a job the old Mach32 and Mach64
> servers did of taking advantage of the hardware capabilities
> of their respective silicon engines? Put another way, were
> there capabilities in the silicon that we did not use? If
> there are transistors not pulling their weight, are docs
> available to remedy the situation should one be so inclined to
> do so?

I don't have access to the docs, but there are many chipsets with the 
mach64 core, going from (iirc) isa to agp (or at least gart). Also iirc
it is used on laptop chipsets released after the radeon (ATI Mobility 
M1 springs to mind, but I can't easily confirm). Since these are based 
on the Mach64 they all use the mach64 driver although there possess
very different features.

There is a GATOS project to add 3D to those mach64 chips which
support 3D; it has never been merged into the XFree86 driver.

Xv may or may not have made it into the mach64 driver too.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna

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