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To: Open Carefully -- Contents Under Pressure <greywolf@autodesk.com>
From: Chris Torek <torek@BSDI.COM>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/19/1994 19:44:48
>RCONSOLE hasn't been attached to a cgsix because it has its own on-board
>memory and doesn't really need to be mmapped into core as a result, is
>that it?
Not quite; the on-board memory is accessible from the CPU, and that
is how the PROM code writes characters into it. But there is special
rasterop hardware on the board, and justing from relative speed, the
PROM knows how to use it, while I do not. :-)
Chris
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