| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 25 Aug 2000 at 19:35:27 |
| Subject: | Re: PCI BUS BOARD |
Hello Alan
On 25-Aug-00, you wrote:
>> 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.
That's not how I've been told it. And besides..
> you have the address space, you write to the correct places. done.
.. how do you find out where it's been installed? Oh, just skim around in
memory until you find a register that changes the display mode, right? :)
How do you check if you've got the right PCI card installed? Damn right
there are conflicts between PCI vendor, product and subsystem id's for
PCI cards and Zorro ones. I suspect they just ignored that though and
decided to just wedge everything into expansion.library..
.. like hell ;)
>>> 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.
It's hardly INFO. Just a press release and another S3 Virge driver..
>> Why aren't Elbox and Power saying things? Are they scared? Or lying?
>
> Power are just suppliers...why should they know whats going on? ;-)
Because Elbox won't make any money if Power don't sell them ;)
Thanks
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