On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 01:11:35PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Buffers "In Cacahe Scratchpad RAM", but it says that for the GX500 variant being specified at the moment, BLT Buffers are "FIFOs in GP". It also says above
Not 100% sure.
? A 32-bit datapath that can support 32-bit ARGB full color.
Thats actually the important but unsupported by X bit right now. Its got render acceleration so can support EXA which is important for compositing and friends.
? Incorporated BLT FIFOs to replace the cache based BLT buffers used in the GX1 processor.
Sounds promising
If true that's good news, because losing the cache wouldn't help video playback.
The Geode is not bad at video because it does have hardware colour conversion and scaling overlay logic in most variants of the support chip.
Alan