From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:12:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:12:05 -0500 Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.74]:27802 "EHLO falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:12:01 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: dep To: linux-kernel , newbie@XFree86.Org Subject: performance boost from merging linux-2.4.0, xfree86-4.02 Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:14:59 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010717145901.00573@depoffice.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org for what it's worth: this afternoon i conducted an experiment: i copied everything that was newer from [xfree-4.02-sourcedir]/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/drm/kernel to my [linux-2.4.0-sourcedir]/drivers/char/drm and then built a monolithic kernel containing agpgart, dri, and mga support. the performance improvement is simply tremendous -- gears, for instance, in the XscreenSavers module form, is running at at least 75 fps at 1280x1024. really screaming. obviously, anybody wanting to play with this needs to backup everything first. but i think the experiment is well worth it for anyone competent to build a kernel and who is interested in the potential of the dri stuff in X. this also suggests that probably the kernel dri stuff could stand an update. -- dep -- bipartisanship: an illogical construct not unlike the idea that if half the people like red and half the people like blue, the country's favorite color is purple. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/