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From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:26:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422F8623.4030405@cantab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110405563.3072.250.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> There are a few Geode tricks to know for performance
> 
> - If you can't turn it off use solid areas of colour to speed the system
> up (The hardware uses RLE encoding to reduce ram fetch bandwidth)

How much of a difference does the compression make to performance?

> - The onboard audio is a software SB emulation on older GX. It burns
> CPU.

Presumably one could write a native audio driver that didn't use the 
soundblaster emulation?

David Vrabel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200503081935.j28JZ433020124@hera.kernel.org>
2005-03-09 17:01 ` [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs Alan Cox
2005-03-09 17:33   ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-09 21:59     ` Alan Cox
2005-03-09 22:23       ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-09 23:26       ` David Vrabel [this message]
2005-03-10  0:06         ` Alan Cox
2005-03-11  1:42           ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-11 11:02             ` Alan Cox
2005-03-11 14:13               ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-03-21 23:41               ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22  1:09                 ` Kianusch Sayah Karadji
2005-03-22  7:13                   ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22  8:01                     ` Kianusch Sayah Karadji

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