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Busmastering, TBA :-P
The next announcement about the Prometheus busmastering? :-D
Prometheus producer was well known for advertising not-existing Prometheus features and not-working Prometheus drivers. Now Anachronism/Redrumloa goes the same way.
Prometheus busmastering has always existed in the Prometheus advertisements. Unfortunately, it has existed in the advertisements ONLY. In the Prometheus hardware this feature has NEVER worked correctly.
1) In five days will be exactly THREE YEARS from the
first announcement (from March 29, 2001) about the Prometheus busmastering. You can read there:
'Real transfer rates between PCI cards - up to 120 MB/s.
Together with the "Prometheus" card we bundle a CD-ROM with:
Drivers for a sound card and a network card.'
As in the Prometheus transfers between the PCI cards (= busmastering) do not work, the real transfer rates are rather nearby 0MB/s than 120MB/s. Also this sound driver is still a fiction.
2) The
second official announcement about the Prometheus busmastering and about not-existing-up-to-today drivers is from January 8, 2002. You can read there:
'From now on, "Prometheus" can operate more PCI cards, and especially Fast Ethernet cards, TV tuners and soundcards. The drivers for these cards will appear very quickly after we do the upgrade. The first one will probably be available in this month.'
3) The
current status of the Prometheus hardware and Prometheus driver support was accurate described in the Prometheus ML. You can read there:
'There is no working on prometheus drivers for usb pci cards.
There is no working DMA support and Busmastering.
Also OpenPCI is not working too..
Still only Voodoo3 and Ethernet 10M/Bit are supported !'
