Albert> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH writes:
>> "Albert D. Cahalan" writes:
>>> Jes Sorensen writes:
>>>> drivers. You have been told a million times here that
>>>> acceleration belongs in user space and still you insist on
>>>> putting it in the kernel where it does not belong.
>>> Shut up, you elitist 680x0 user.
>> My, such a cogent argument.
Albert> It was well deserved, considering the part of the post you
Albert> trimmed. He told us all to get better hardware (obviously the
Albert> Amiga) or just live in hell with our PC hardware.
You obviously missed the point in my postings, I consider the Amiga to
be fairly dead in most aspect and I certainly would not suggest anyone
to spend their money on it unless for centimental and hack value. I
use the one I have because its fun to hack Linux for and because there
are still quite a few Amiga owners left who could use a modern OS for
their machine (ie. Linux - or is that too obvious ;-).
However, there are plenty of non PC manufacturers who seem to develop
sane hardware and you can get fairly sane graphics cards for PCs.
Albert> If people had standardized on the Amiga, the world _might_ be
Albert> a better place. Oh well.
The x86 is not exactly the most wonderful processor in the world, on
the other hand I can tell you about bad flaws in the Amiga design as
well. However, its not the issue here.
Albert> The Matrox Millennium uses busmastering scatter-gather DMA
Albert> with an IRQ. We don't get to use features like that. Newer
Albert> AGP cards can initiate such transfers on their own, perhaps
Albert> with page table awareness.
I am not arguing that we do not need an API for supporting card
interrupts and possibly DMAs.
>> (I'm an x86 user, by the way, so your ultimate argument doesn't
>> apply.
Albert> No, you have different reasons than he does. You are willing
Albert> to give up stability for a tiny bit of speed on low-end
Albert> hardware. He has an Amiga. The only thing you have in common
Albert> is a "screw you" attitude towards people who want stable PC
Albert> video and/or want to use advanced features.
*plonk*
For the record, I own an Amiga and a NeXT (the latter doesn't run
Linux unfortunately) but I also use PCs and workstations a lot. I hope
to upgrade this Sun SS5 as soon as I can find out whether ARLA will
work reliably on it (time issue).
Jes
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