From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261865AbULJWi3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:38:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261849AbULJWi2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:38:28 -0500 Received: from host62-24-231-113.dsl.vispa.com ([62.24.231.113]:702 "EHLO cenedra.walrond.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261865AbULJWhp (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:37:45 -0500 From: Andrew Walrond To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mach Speed motherboard w/onboard video Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:37:29 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Alan Cox , gene.heskett@verizon.net References: <200412081140.33199.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200412082032.22619.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <1102711303.3271.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1102711303.3271.64.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412102237.29753.andrew@walrond.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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