From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: DaMouse Networks <damouse@ntlworld.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:16:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <401E85EA.7010209@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040201145827.059332d3@EozVul.WORKGROUP>
DaMouse Networks wrote:
>>A cheap cludge would be an optional second GPU on the card just to do
>>the required VGA modes, with an analogue video pass-through. That
>>would make the VGA cards more expensive than a single GPU which
>>incorporated VGA, but add almost nothing in cost or complexity terms
>>to the non-VGA cards.
>
>
> I was thinking of suggesting something similar as I browsed the thread. I would think that having Linux instead of the BIOS would be good since you would only need a small cut-down Linux that has drivers for a VGA->FB interface or something similar. The SMP approach from XGI might work in this since Linux supports SMP very well and it could perform well with up to like 4+ GPUs? (thinking of the card size that might limit this you could have them stacked :) )
>
> I think I'm gonna have to follow this thread closely :)
So, do you all honestly think that adding cost to the board is going to
make it sell?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-02 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-01 14:58 [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip DaMouse Networks
2004-02-02 17:16 ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2004-02-02 17:37 ` DaMouse Networks
2004-02-02 18:45 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-02 19:43 ` DaMouse Networks
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2004-01-28 17:34 Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 1:11 ` Christian Unger
2004-01-29 15:59 ` Stephen Smoogen
2004-01-29 16:07 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2004-01-29 16:21 ` John Bradford
2004-01-29 16:13 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 16:29 ` John Bradford
2004-01-29 16:52 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 17:18 ` John Bradford
2004-01-29 17:47 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 18:55 ` John Bradford
2004-01-29 19:11 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 21:36 ` John Bradford
2004-01-29 21:36 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-30 10:36 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-30 17:02 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-30 17:20 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-01-30 17:40 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-30 18:11 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-01-30 18:21 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-30 19:09 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-01-30 21:09 ` Helge Hafting
2004-01-30 21:23 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-31 17:32 ` John Bradford
2004-01-31 18:39 ` Roland Dreier
2004-01-30 17:23 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-30 17:44 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-30 19:01 ` John Bradford
2004-01-30 21:19 ` Helge Hafting
2004-02-01 10:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-01 11:06 ` John Bradford
2004-02-01 11:46 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-01 22:41 ` Christian Unger
2004-02-02 17:13 ` Timothy Miller
2004-02-02 17:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-30 16:54 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-02-01 10:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-02 17:03 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 16:30 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-01-29 16:58 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-29 18:08 ` Frank Gevaerts
2004-01-30 22:35 ` Esben Stien
2004-01-29 18:06 ` Torrey Hoffman
2004-01-29 18:58 ` Timothy Miller
2004-01-31 18:41 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-31 18:15 ` Tomas Zvala
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