| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 25 Aug 2000 at 13:24:36 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
hi,
> 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.
the device maps itself to memory. The PPC cards work in this way, though
WarpUp mist be told where the PermediaII is to access it.
you have the address space, you write to the correct places. done.
> > 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?
sorry, but the above info was posted on the CGX WWW site a while back.
> Why aren't Elbox and Power saying things? Are they scared? Or lying?
Power are just suppliers...why should they know whats going on? ;-)
alan
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