Re: Any dual AGP slot motherboards?

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 15:38:36 EST


Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010190937460.10658-100000@twin.uoregon.edu>
By author: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> the AGP bus specification is for a single device (master)
>
> you can review it at:
>
> http://www.intel.com/technology/agp/agp_index.htm
>

Technically, AGP is a "port", not a "bus", for this very reason.
However, there is nothing that says a chipset can't provide more than
one AGP port; it just means you can't connect more than one device to
each port.

        -hpa

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