theory for linux

[jihiggs]

i have read about linux running on all sorts of things, palm pilots, macs, even routers. i wonder if were possible to run it on a video card independantly. its got the cpu, ram, bios (maybe thats where the os could go?). not really usefull but could be very interesting, to me at least. any thoughts?

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[flamethrower205]

How would it help though? Are u suggesting forgoing a CPU, and rather having like a CGPU?

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[jihiggs]

its not going to help any thing, just seems like video cards are getting to the point that they are like computers in themselves.

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[flamethrower205]

Mm, dun see why we'd need it.

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[jihiggs]

somthing doesnt need to be usefull to be interesting. why would any one need to run linux on a cisco router? who knows but it has been done. so why try to get linux to run on a graphics card, because its there to be done.

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[flamethrower205]

Oh, I never said it's not interesting, I mean maybe some further optimization can come from it, but what I meant was that chances r comapnies wouldn't implement it unless it's useful.

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[Reverend_Bel]

what the bloody hell are you talking about?

a video card doesn't have anything close to a "CPU" in the x86 / sparc / ppc sense of the word. it also doesn't have any I/O or anything else that makes a computer a computer.

grpahics cards aren't becoming more like computers, they are more like part of a computer. modern graphics chips in the modern PC offload part of the rendering process so that you don't need a 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000mhz cpu to do doom III in software. there is no reason to try and make the GPU handle stuff like I/O and system memory and what have you.

learn a little more about hardware and OSes other than jsut that linux can be engineered onto lots of stuff.

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[jihiggs]

did the bullys at school take your lunch money again? what the hell is your problem? its just a question of is it possible? i know damn well its not a typical processor, no in and out system? oh really... learn YOUR hardware before you blow up at some one for no reason.

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[Reverend_Bel]

sorry, I had a bad day of classes and I was probably just veting, it was ment to be sarcastic and not insulting, but I guess it didn't come off that way.

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[grassapa]

whoa thats a lot of megahertz there...

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[flamethrower205]

*snif* *sniff* the bullies took my lunch money today....oh wait, I was the bully who took some poor kid's money j/k

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