[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:18:48AM +1100, Trevor Roydhouse wrote:
>The world has moved on. All modern graphics cards now have their own 
>dedicated CPU (GPU) which is often considerably more powerful than the 
>computer's mainboard CPU.

Most of which aren't documented so X can't use the GPU unless the
vendor releases a binary driver.  (Though AMD is releasing documentation
for some of the ATI GPUs and Intel have just released documentation on
a couple of their newer GPUs).

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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