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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:41:36 -0400
From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
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CC: Greg Buchholz <linux@sleepingsquirrel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable?
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Chris Friesen wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
> 
>> Anyhow, the reason for that long discussion is because I see chip 
>> design and software programming as generally incompatible mindsets.  
>> Sure, one can certainly help you to learn the other, but many 
>> methodologies that apply to one would be horrible to apply to the other.
> 
> 
> Hmm...I've got a buddy doing a Master's in codesign, where you literally 
> design the chip and the software to run on it at the same time, so you 
> can simulate them both at the same time and optimise which bits you do 
> in hardware and which in software.
> 
> Seems to me that chip design and software programming (at least for 
> low-level high-performance stuff) are tightly intertwined.
> 
> Of course there's the other side of things where you write in prolog or 
> lisp and are totally abstracted from the hardware--but I don't see too 
> many people writing e.g. graphics drivers in those languages.
>

Oh, they are intertwined, alright.  They just require different mindsets 
to do either of then WELL.  I'm sure your friend is equally adept at 
both mindsets, so that isn't an issue.

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