[Open-graphics] A really good immediate use for OGD1: PCI bus analyzer

[Tim Schmidt]

On 1/2/07, Timothy Miller <theosib at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a good idea.  But what I meant was to use some very simple
> compression in the hardware in order to shorten the length of time
> necessary to download the entire trace over serial line.

115200 bps is ~ 14 k/s.  At that speed, a full 256Mb ram dump would
take approximately 5.2 hours.

That assumes we don't have to do the equivalent of UU-encoding data to
be VT100-compatible.

Compression's a good idea.

--tim