Thanks!!

Thanks!!

[Dustin Lang]

Hi,

I finally upgraded to 2.6 last night, and I'm really enjoying it!  I have 
a PowerBook G4 1GHz (with NVidia graphics card).  CPU frequency scaling 
is working nicely for me.  The cpufreq driver reports:
> Registering PowerMac CPU frequency driver
> Low: 765 Mhz, High: 998 Mhz, Boot: 765 Mhz
Which makes me wonder if 2.4 was running at 765 the whole time.  Maybe 
because of this, 2.6 FEELS faster :)  Also, the backlight fine control is 
great!  I'll play with sleep/resume this weekend and report my status.

I just wanted to thank everyone who has worked on PPC Linux.  You've done 
great work!

Cheers,
dustin.

Re: Thanks!!

[Colin Leroy]

On 08 Apr 2005 at 10h04, Dustin Lang wrote:

Hi, 

> Which makes me wonder if 2.4 was running at 765 the whole time.
> Maybe because of this, 2.6 FEELS faster :)

2.6 feels faster on desktop for other reasons too, such as a faster
scheduler (at least it was the case when I switched to 2.6, maybe 2.4
got a faster one too).

>  Also, the backlight fine
> control is great!  I'll play with sleep/resume this weekend and
> report my status.

You mentioned you have an nVidia GPU, so I guess you won't have much
success - nVidia cards are badly supported as they're being very secret
about their hardware.

-- 
Colin

Re: Thanks!!

[Dan Malek]

On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Colin Leroy wrote:

> 2.6 feels faster on desktop for other reasons too, such as a faster
> scheduler (at least it was the case when I switched to 2.6, maybe 2.4
> got a faster one too).

A faster scheduler?  Now, that's one I've never heard :-)


	-- Dan

Re: Thanks!!

[Daniele Lacamera]

On Friday 08 April 2005 23:21, Dan Malek wrote:

> A faster scheduler?  Now, that's one I've never heard :-)
> 

If interested take a look here :
http://josh.trancesoftware.com/linux/


-- 
Daniele Lacamera
root at danielinux.net

Re: Thanks!!

[Colin Leroy]

On 08 Apr 2005 at 17h04, Dan Malek wrote:

Hi, 

> 
> On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Colin Leroy wrote:
> 
> > 2.6 feels faster on desktop for other reasons too, such as a faster
> > scheduler (at least it was the case when I switched to 2.6, maybe
> > 2.4 got a faster one too).
> 
> A faster scheduler?  Now, that's one I've never heard :-)

See http://kerneltrap.org/node/342 and
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/kernel/o1.php if you want more
infos.


-- 
Colin