Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270992AbUJUVdW (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:33:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270972AbUJUVdL (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:33:11 -0400 Received: from rrcs-24-123-59-149.central.biz.rr.com ([24.123.59.149]:47428 "EHLO galon.ev-en.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270983AbUJUVcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:32:36 -0400 Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? From: Baruch Even To: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <4177FB73.10101@techsource.com> References: <82D5E38355314D46AF3015FF55F6955802F83513@CORPMAIL3> <4177FB73.10101@techsource.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1098394352.5455.4.camel@baruch.hamilton.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:32:32 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 908 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 19:09, Timothy Miller wrote: > I have before thought of the idea of selling a "card full of FPGAs" that > developers could use for all sorts of compute-intensive projects. You > could program them to do rendering or protein folding or FFT's for SETI. > But in that case, I'm not sure what Tech-Source's value add would be, > since you'd have to get all of your software tools from the FPGA vendor. Something like this http://www.fpga4fun.com/board_dragon.html with this http://www.fpga4fun.com/PongGame.html That covers the base to do VGA display with an FPGA. But the cost is pretty much prohibitive at over $250 per unit. Baruch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/