On Fri, Mar 21 2008 at 22:41 +0200, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
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> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> VESA Local Bus.  It was (in some sense) the predecessor of AGP.  We
>> treat it like ISA inside the kernel.  On x86, EISA depends on ISA, so
>> the dependency, while wrong, does not affect any x86 users who have an
>> EISA card.
>>
> 
> Well, one can say VLB was to ISA (a souped-up ISA bus with some of the 
> worst limitations removed) what AGP is to PCI...
> 
> 	-hpa

Hmm interesting, so someone took the VGA thing and made a storage device
for it. Did that ever happen with AGP? Any AGP scsi cards. I guess I can
Google for it.

Boaz
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