From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:26:52 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: <0iq7g6xkuk.ln2@news.homelinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35168f900e5e784f9f7091c3249d720f@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09e54d0e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. / -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/