Re: [Dri-devel] what's the meaning of 'Graphics Aperture' in AGP?

2003-09-17 Thread Ryan Underwood
Hi, On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:30:09PM +0800, Tao, Qian ( IES) wrote: I am a newbee in dri. Now i am reading agp source code in linux kernel. I am not clear about 'Graphics Aperture' I download AGP spec 2.0,but it don't say a word about it. what's the relationship between

RE: [Dri-devel] what's the meaning of 'Graphics Aperture' in AGP?

2003-09-17 Thread Alexander Stohr
The mainboard chipset provides two things in respect to the keyword AGP. - a high speed bus interface to the graphics controller - a memory paging uint exposed to the graphics controller and the CPU the 2nd is just a remapped view of the main memory, resembling some/any page of main memory in a