From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:33:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c069fe01b430b5b4286878e6c5ef0ce@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0iq7g6xkuk.ln2@news.homelinux.net>
> > 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.
qemu already marks this memory WB with PAT
bits in the shadow PT.
http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/xs-boston-2008-cache
> 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.
does your chipset support ahci, and if so, is it in ahci mode?
that should work. if it doesn't could you send me your
information off-line?
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 11:33 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
2009-06-12 11:33 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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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