From: wolff@liberator.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) Subject: Re: 486 with 33 Mhz and 16Mb or 50 Mhz and 8Mb? Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 09:54:03 GMT
walterm@iat.holonet.net (Walter D. Montalvo) writes:
>Can anyone clarify why EISA is not being used by Linux?
Most drivers assume that they'd need to use 16 bit instructions
to access devices. That's exacly what they do. Thus the top 16 bits
on the bus won'd get used.
>This is a question that probably belongs in comp.windows.x.i386unix but,
>does having local bus improve your X performance using Xfree?
Yes. If, and only if, you have a local bus VGA card.
>walterm@holonet.net
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