Re: [OT] Crazy idea: Design open-source graphics chip

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Timothy Miller wrote:
> >>Oh, there's one thing I forgot.  It would have to support VGA.  There is
> >>a VGA core on opencores.org that we could use, but its logic area would
> >>probably push up the FPGA cost so that the board was in the $100 range.
> >>  Probably more.
> >
> >
> > Why support legacy VGA? It makes things more complex and expensive, and doesn't
> > give us much, especially for a SoC.
>
> It's all about console support in a PC.
>
> BTW, What is SoC?

System-on-a-Chip, i.e. a complete solution in one chip.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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