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[News] Elbox answer for the hardware protection featureANN.lu
Posted on 21-Mar-2001 09:31 GMT by Christophe Decanini9 comments
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From vgr:Elbox posted and responded to a few questions over the Mediator hadware key and December 13th date on the Amiga-Mediator mailinglist
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Comment 1Christian Munk20-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
Comment 2Chris20-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
Comment 3Darrin20-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
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Comment 5Alan Watson20-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
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Comment 8Alan Watson21-Mar-2001 23:00 GMT
Elbox answer for the hardware protection feature : Comment 9 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by Christian Michael on 26-Mar-2001 22:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Alan Watson):
The 8mb window issue is not "the issue" - what is needed is access to the entire 16 mb (32mb in the case of voodoo3+)
This will be accomplished by address multiplexing INDEPENDANTLY of the memory window setting (a qualified guess).
With the next software update arrives there will be no bank-switching problems at all, regardless of the memory window.
Don't you remember that elbox was accused of limiting the PCI address space to 8 mb chunks?
Elbox responded that address multiplexing ensures full speed access to the entire PCI address space.
From their latest reply it sounds like we will finally see this feature in action.
The size of the window really does not matter, be it 4 or 8mb, bankswitching is still the issue, but this will be fixed according to elbox.
Elbox has not mentioned anything about address multiplexing in their latest response, but what else could it be?
The issue is the efficiency of the address multiplexing built into mediator, which is not used in current voodoo driver (or is it the pci.library?)
We will know soon :)
regards,
Christian Michael
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