Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphic processing system – Integrated circuit
Patent
1997-09-09
1999-08-03
Tung, Kee M.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphic processing system
Integrated circuit
345503, 345521, 345514, 345526, 711202, G06F 1206
Patent
active
059331585
ABSTRACT:
A computer system having a core logic chipset that functions as a bridge between an Accelerated Graphics Port ("AGP") bus device such as a graphics controller, and a host processor and computer system memory wherein a Graphics Address Remapping Table ("GART table") is used by the core logic chipset to remap virtual memory addresses used by the AGP graphics controller into physical memory addresses that reside in the computer system memory. The GART table enables the AGP graphics controller to work in contiguous virtual memory address space, but actually use non-contiguous blocks or pages of physical system memory to store textures, command lists and the like. The GART table is made up of a plurality of entries, each entry comprising an address pointer to a base address of a page of graphics data in the computer system physical memory, and feature flags that may be used to customize the associated page of graphics data. One of the feature flags is used as a link bit for each GART table entry such that when the core logic chipset reads selected ones of the GART table entries stored in the system memory, it stores a first one of the selected ones in its cache memory and determines if the link bit thereof is set. If the link bit of the first one of the selected ones is set then a next one of the selected ones is stored in the cache memory and if the link bit thereof is set then a subsequent one of the selected ones is stored in the cache memory until one of the link bits thereof is determined not to be set.
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Elliott Robert C.
Santos Gregory N.
Chichester Ronald L.
Compaq Computer Corporation
Katz Paul N.
Luu Sy D.
Tung Kee M.
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