From: Philip B. <ph...@bo...> - 2002-03-20 22:55:21
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:33:01PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > In 2000 somebody announced a solution to the DMA problem. Are the > results usable? I don't think anybody took a closer look on what had > been achieved. (Not in the DRI development either, since NV cards are > currently not supported.) However, the link is still there > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sector2 and a zip file is downloadable. btw: more specifically, after a re-reading of the webpage there, it looks like the main purpose of this stuff is to enable AGP usage. Which is a form of DMA, I suppose. But if someone says "enables DMA", I usually assume "DMA without AGP" |