| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 23 Aug 2000 at 12:48:02 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hello Alan
On 23-Aug-00, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>> So CGX will support the PCI bus board. But will it support any of the cards
>> you see fit to deposit on it? Hmm..? Support for a bus is one thing, actually
>> having a display driver for the Voodoo3 is another.
>
> CGX will not support the BUSBoard. There will be CGX drivers that will
> support certain cards ONt he BUSBoard, but theres no need for the gfx
> library system to support a BUS
Of course there is, how else would it find out things about the cards? Oh,
that's right, Amigas will be able to handle PCI cards without extensions to
the OS and it's structures, configure them like they were Zorro (even though
they don't actually configure like Zorro) and everything WITHOUT some
kind of intervention?
It ain't gonna be as simple as writing a simple chip driver, beleive me.
> iirc, S3 and PermediaII PCI cards are already done (basic change of current
> drivers) voodoo3 is being worked on - both a CGX driver for AmigaOS usage
> and a Warp3D driver
What I want to know is: why are we getting these trickles of info from obscure
mailing lists (this one :) and from off-the-cuff comments on lists where the
actual product doesn't really warrant discussion (I'd say H&P's 3DWorld list
would just edge in :) until it's out and being used?
Why aren't Elbox and Power saying things? Are they scared? Or lying?
There should be an amiga-product-speculation mailing list ;)
Thanks
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