On 4/21/07, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4/20/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/21/07, Timothy Normand Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's possible for PCI-type periperal devices to access any part of
> > physical memory via DMA.
> >
> > What do you want to use the 1 gb of system memory for?
> >
> > On 4/20/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > is it possible to create a gpu that can use up to 1 gb of system memory?
> > >
>
> textures. actually i would like to have "unlimited" textures. i
> thought 1 gb approximately "unlimited".
>
Well, there's different ways of doing that. You can give the CPU the
ability to fetch texels from host memory. Or you can have a memory
manager that "swaps" textures into the graphics memory. One is not
always more efficient than the other.
i wanted avoid those techiniques.
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