[Open-graphics] Byte twising

ndownes at tampabay.rr.com ndownes at tampabay.rr.com
Sun Dec 9 16:46:37 EST 2007


I was going to comment on this.  By integrating PCI onto the core we are limiting options for the future.  What I would suggest is using a general chip interface, such as Wishbone, so that in the future it would be easier to replace PCI with AGP, PCIe or even integrate it into a SoC.

---- Timothy Normand Miller <theosib at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Almost forgot.  For dealing with various big-endian and little-endian
> hosts, we may need some logic somewhere between PCI and various
> targets (graphics memory, engine registers, etc.) that can swap the
> byte ordering around.
> 
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> Timothy Normand Miller
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