Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

Alan Cox
2002-03-17T04:17:24Z

> Either way, we have tens of MB of ram where we either put textures,
> options or whatever --- the CPU has to meddle with it one way or
> another.

The disk DMA's it to RAM, the graphics card fetches it via the GART
mappings. We shouldn't be touching a lot of it.