From: Balwinder S Dheeman <bdheeman@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:26:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0iq7g6xkuk.ln2@news.homelinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35168f900e5e784f9f7091c3249d720f@plan9.bell-labs.com>
On 06/10/2009 02:51 AM, geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> I've just pushed out kernel sources and binaries to incorporate
> Aki's mtrr and vesa changes. The combination makes monitor=vesa
> run quite a bit faster; we saw a factor of three speed improvement
> in one case.
>
> It's still limited to a single processor, but we've got someone
> investigating ways to fix that.
Great, but is in-compatible with QEMU.
Moreover, Plan9 does not boot off of a SiS SATA/USB2.0 DVD-RW or HDD's,
that's why I was forced to use QEMU.
/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-09 21:18 geoff
2009-06-09 21:26 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 23:29 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-09 23:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-09 23:54 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-06-10 0:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2009-06-12 9:26 ` Balwinder S Dheeman [this message]
2009-06-12 11:33 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-12 21:42 ` James Tomaschke
2009-06-16 0:20 ` Kenji Arisawa
2009-06-16 2:19 ` erik quanstrom
2009-06-16 2:46 ` Venkatesh Srinivas
2009-06-16 3:17 ` Ori Bernstein
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