[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dieter wrote:
Am I correct in thinking that a SATA controller would be easier and faster to
design than a graphics/video controller, and that it would cost significantly
less to get an ASIC fabbed?
Is it anything more than a parallel to serial and serial to parallel
converter. a DMA controller, and the line transceiver?
If we were going to market an X server on a card, this would good to
include since it would give the X server direct access to the disk for a
swap partition without going through the computer -- only arbitrate on
the bus on the card.
An enhancement for OGA-2, perhaps? It could get complicated; the graphics
card might have to buffer all requests coming from the computer on that
interface and arbitrate priorities.
The PCI bus extends onto the card and different devices are different
PCI devices so arbitration occurs just the same as the main bus but if
both are on the card, then arbitration doesn't leave the card.
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JRT
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