Subject: Re: AGP
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@ip010160021130.nbtel.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/02/2000 00:46:41
On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:30:26PM -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, David Ruppel wrote:
> > Does NetBSD 1.4.1 run on a machine with an AGP card?
> 
> Yes, but as far as I know it doesn't take advantage of any AGP features
> (the card will run like a PCI card).

Uh, what "AGP features"?

To software, the AGP bus just looks like a PCI bus with twice the bandwidth
and half the latency.

In fact, that's pretty much what it *is*.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"