Subject: Re: GPU systems ?
To: Philippe St-Jacques <h0ho@hotmail.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-ports
Date: 01/23/2003 17:37:33
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:32:48AM +0000, Philippe St-Jacques wrote:
> I'm no expert in BSD core, but would it be possible to implement some
> bootsrap procedure on those powerful graphic cards out there in a wat that
> me can run NetBSD directly on the GPU ?
Not likely --- these things are not generally general-purpose processors,
and they also generally do not have MMUs.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>