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From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, gene.heskett@verizon.net
Subject: Re: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:37:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412102237.29753.andrew@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102711303.3271.64.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Friday 10 Dec 2004 20:41, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> An external video card will give you materially better performance
> anyway and if you are doing real time stuff help in a few other ways.
>

Is this one of those 'shared memory' video chipsets then? And is it like the 
old days on the Amiga where some of the system ram is dual ported so that 
video/cpu don't contend the bus for memory access, or are you implying that 
they do contend, and that imposes a performance hit?

Or none of the above? :)

Andrew Walrond

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-10 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08 16:40 Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video Gene Heskett
2004-12-08 16:56 ` Lee Revell
2004-12-08 17:48   ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-08 22:11     ` Joel Jaeggli
2004-12-09  1:32       ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-10 20:41         ` Alan Cox
2004-12-10 22:26           ` Gene Heskett
2004-12-10 22:37           ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2004-12-10 22:53             ` Joel Jaeggli

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