joelja
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Several video cards I have appear to have an I2O interface on them. Can
> > the existing kernel I2O code be used to utilize that interface?
>
> Umm. That sounds improbable. The released I2O specification covers
> Disks
> SCSI devices
> Tapes
> Network cards
>
> only. I2O is hardly suited to a video card where the sheer bandwidth and
> latency issues really rule out chatting to an I/O coprocessor on the way
>
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