🚀 go-pugleaf

Wael Hendawi <wael@sagantec.co.il> writes:

> > >- AGP 4x + sidebanding
> >
> >         Nice that it's finally supported though it isn't a very useful
> > feature.  I am, however, sceptical as to how this will work in the V5
> > cards with more then one processor.  From what I'm hearing, these
> > cards have an AGP to PCI bridge on board to allow for the multiple
> > graphics processors to work together.  It might still work, but I
> > wouldn't be holding my breath for AGP texturing support.  Still, as I
> > said, not exactly something I'd be too worried about.
> 
> Actually I think sidebanding (AGP texturing), is not support supported in
> The VSA-100 either. 3dfx position on this is that
> "AGP texturing is dead", and this is going to be true when Hardware T&L
> is used, you will need the AGP bandwidth to transfer all the extra
> polygons.


sidebanding != AGP texturing. Sidebanding is pipelining data/address
reads/writes. DME = AGP texturing.