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- From: mikael.berglund@amiga.pp.se (Mikael Berglund)
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- Subject: Re: Question to all amiga programs
- Date: 18 Feb 1996 00:17:35 GMT
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- In a message 14-Feb-96 19:10:35 Timothy Eves <se1te@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
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- TE> It is rumord that ATech are goind to make new amigas with PCI bus
- TE> connectors built in, when the do CHRP complient amigas. However it's
- TE> only a rumor nothing official.
-
- Not being any expert, just read some papers on the specs for CHRP. If
- interpreted correctly it goes something like this:
-
- I/O devices are not directly connected to the processor bus but are linked
- through 'host bridges' that interconnects the selected bus standard with the
- processor bus. Host Bridge 0 has to be PCI. To the PCI Host Bridge one can
- connect a new host bridge to a bus design of your choice and so on. From the
- documentation:
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- 'Typically, the bus speeds and throughput decrease and the number of
- supportable loads increases as one progress from the primary processor bus
- to more remote buses'.
-
- The above statement is (C) Apple Computer, Inc. International Business
- Machines Corporation, Motorola, Inc. 1995. All rights reserved.
-
- This suggests to me that with a simple form of implementation one would have
- to go through the PCI host bridge to get to, for example a Zorro IV bus. As
- Zorro is asynchronous, and from what i understand, quicker than PCI, going
- through the PCI host bridge would decrease performance. Autoconfig goes who
- knows where.
-
- Although, judging from the SMP example if one employ a primary processor bus
- switch there seems to be a possibility to connect a number of host bridges
- to the processor bus and that could possibly solve it.
-
- Mind you, i am no hardware expert so i could be wrong on the interpretation.
- If someone thinks he knows better he may correct me anytime.
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- Regards TMB PGP public key available
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