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

[tonyb]

I would guess that the interesting pieces of a data trace do not 
compress well.  I think that the parallel port can give us 1Mb/s. 
Perhaps this would be a better choice than the serial port.

Tony

Timothy Miller wrote:
> On 1/2/07, tonyb <tonyb at abcc.linuxceptional.com> wrote:
>> "Standard" lossless compression will reduce the amount of data by less
>> than a factor of four.  It would still take over an hour to move the
>> data over the serial line.
> 
> That all depends on the nature of the data.  How compressible is a
> file filled with nothing but NUL characters?
> 
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