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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile
To: cw@f00f.org (Chris Wedgwood)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 04:31:25 +0000 (GMT)
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> Either way, we have tens of MB of ram where we either put textures,
> options or whatever --- the CPU has to meddle with it one way or
> another.

The disk DMA's it to RAM, the graphics card fetches it via the GART
mappings. We shouldn't be touching a lot of it. 

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