On 9/6/05, Martin Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The bottleneck is the result of us not having a geometry engine. The > > host CPU does the geometry calculations. This results in a rather > > large volume of data being pushed over the PCI bus. This limits us to > > something like 1 million triangles/sec which really isn't all that > > bad, but some games will want more. > > Would there be a PCI buttleneck when used for desktop use?
Generally no. Desktop usage involves lots of large rectangles, which we handle well. And I won't tolerate the kind of laziness I see in the DDX modules for some graphics chips. We damn well will accelerate zero-lines that are long enough to benefit from it. There are multiple ways to accelerate text. We'll have a real hardware cursor. There's no excuse for accelerating only solid fills and bitblts. > > Does this imply that if I have a fast enough host CPU and no bandwidth > limits are reached, I should be able to play Doom 3? =) Doom 3 uses the GPU in ways that are completely different from how the desktop (regular 2D apps) does. But you might get good performance on a AGP bus. > > > I believe the Permedia 2 was like this, but I could be mistaken. I > > know that this is how a lot of early 3D designs were. > > Will the 3D preformance in OGP be comparable to some old 3D cards? Better in some ways, comparable in others. Generally, we've implemented the most important parts of the OpenGL spec. > > > > Hey, it's a fair trade. We will need to push these units. Marketing > > and advertizing cost money. If you buy them in bulk, you are taking > > on some responsibility for marketing and stocking them, which means > > you save us that much for that batch of cards. This is why volume > > pricing works. > > So what you are saying is, the volume discount is due to less handling and > therefore gives the same profit to the company? Basically, although profit does often go down with volume sales. > Would it be likely that the OGC could be sold from an EU contry? I am > thinking about that it is rather expensive to buy from the US if you live in > Europe. I hope some places will distribute it. > > > > It is indeed. Not to mention the KernelTrap articles about our alpha > > driver crashing the kernel in evil ways. :) > > Hehe =) > > > > > I would expect a driver written in Perl to be one of the hacks =) > > > > Egad. Is there a way for userspace apps to do config and io space > accesses? > > > > I don't know=( But you can do very impressive things with Perl! Take e.g. > the Perl Panel which is a complete rewrite of the Gnome Panel. > http://jodrell.net/projects/perlpanel Well, the basic stuff isn't a problem. It's just certain kinds of priveleged bus accesses. We'll let the hackers tackle that after we've gotten the usual ones finished. :) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
