I read a very interesting article on Hackaday this
morning about the "Secondary Memory Interface"
on the Pi.  This is a little-known (poorly documented)
alternative pin set on the GPIO header that enables
a bus-type i/o with up to 18 data bits, 6 address lines,
read and write, and DMA request, all with programmable
sample and hold times with nsec resolution.  This site
has lots of info and examples on using it:
https://iosoft.blog/2020/07/16/raspberry-pi-smi/

This looks to me like it could be readily used to make
a parallel interface to Mesa cards like the 7i90 and
7i43 for very low latency.

-- Ralph

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