IIUC, they're using a microcontroller to do high-level book-keeping and I/O. It's not uncommon to do that. For instance, the idea of using a microcontroller to manage DMA transactions (something we intended HQ for) is also a design feature of ATI GPUs.
2011/4/12 Raphaël Jacquot <[email protected]>: > > looks like nvidia came up with a microcontroller based design too... > > http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Nouveau%20Companion%2044 > > lets hope there's no patent on the idea... > > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
