If the UMA stuff from Rogelio will be possible (e.g. by designing a new northbridge) wouldn't it be possible to make a mass-multiprocessing mainboard using non-smp enabled cpus?
How much does SMP need direct hw support (cache coherency?), could this be eliminated by sw ? (patching the kernel to assign processes to cpu wisely?). It would be nice to have a scalable platform, where you could put A cpu's, B GB of ram, C gpu's, D display output ports, E dsp boards and so on - all sharing one address space. Maybe with hotplug.. small home mainframe - you just extend it / don't need to throw away parts every 2-3 years because interfaces change (isa,pci,agp,pcie / sdr,ddr,ddr2 / vga/dvi/hdmi/dvi-dl). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
