From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265950AbUBBTp6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:45:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265933AbUBBTo0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:44:26 -0500 Received: from mta04-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.44]:13018 "EHLO mta04-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265913AbUBBToP (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:44:15 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:43:43 +0000 From: DaMouse Networks To: Timothy Miller Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip Message-Id: <20040202194343.658ebd47@EozVul.WORKGROUP> In-Reply-To: <401E9AB2.8020005@techsource.com> References: <20040201145827.059332d3@EozVul.WORKGROUP> <401E85EA.7010209@techsource.com> <20040202173719.52952f7f@EozVul.WORKGROUP> <401E9AB2.8020005@techsource.com> Organization: DaMouse Networks X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:45:07 -0500 Timothy Miller wrote: > > More cost? how is saving money on the BIOS raising cost? also the SMP thing would allow like a ton of cheap chips to be stuck on with uber glue :) > > > > > I was talking about adding more chips as being something that would > raise costs. I was tried to cover that area to by making it so it would be alot of cheap chips since Linux scales extremely well with SMP it would be possible to just a few 50->100MHz chips on there which were built cheap but altogether form a cheap-and-cheerful SMP array. -DaMouse