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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA485 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:10:50 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: SVGA/TIGA driver? Date: 2 Feb 93 10:54:38 Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab Lines: 18 Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Feb2105438@cognition.pa.dec.com> References: <C1nDuz.DFM@csn.org> <1993Feb1.164628.19846@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com In-reply-to: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com's message of Mon, 1 Feb 1993 16:46:28 GMT I agree with David Wexelblat's analysis of the TI340x0/TIGA market. I have a full set of technical manuals for the 340x0, and it looks like it would be fairly easy to get an assembler up and running for it, but the fine work of building a stub library into the Xfree server bottom half, and getting the neccessary code downloaded into the 340x0's DRAM, will be very hard and just about totally nonportable from one card to the next. TIGA is an interface to code that you can run, but there is no standard among TIGA cards for how you actually get the TIGA code downloaded or how you get any other code downloaded for that matter. It's just not worth it. Given that a 928-based card will run about $329, and have equivilent performance, I'm going to take my $2500 340x0 board out behind the barn and shoot it. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me