From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 17:37:10 -0700 (PDT)

Re: Accels and /dev/gfx.

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Andreas Beck wrote:

> > I never programmed a FIFO. I have docs on the ATI 64 cards which use a
> > FIFO. This way I can get a feel of how to program one.
> 
> It's pretty simple. It's more or less, that the registers automatically feed
> an internal queue, which executes in the background while you feed it.

	A lot of the FIFOs on newer cards map a linear region so you can 
take advantage of hardware write-combining.

Jon
 
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