Daniel wrote:
> I have a question - if you build such an interface (PCIe->FSB), then you
>   need a licence for the FSB bus (same as the CPU/chipset manufacturers
> have), or do you not?

For this application I don't think the use of any of the patented
aspects of the FSB will be required.

When building a chipset, the north bridge has to understand the full
bus protocol including cache coherency.  For the proposed graphics card,
only a subset of the bus protocol is needed.  (The 82G965 presumably
implments the full bus protocol, but there is no reason that the
card would be forced to use all of it.)

Eric


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