Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-15 Thread Ori Bernstein
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:46:42 -0400 Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: > > mtrrs work on any number of processors. it is plan 9's > > vesa which does not. > > Is this just because the driver uses realmode()? Or is there something else? > > To solve the realmode() problem, we could link rsc's 8i into the

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-15 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
> mtrrs work on any number of processors. it is plan 9's > vesa which does not. Is this just because the driver uses realmode()? Or is there something else? To solve the realmode() problem, we could link rsc's 8i into the kernel and use that to execute the vesa bios code, right? -- vs

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-15 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Jun 15 20:21:36 EDT 2009, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: > Hello Geoff, > > I am glad if mtrr makes effect only to single processor > until the mtrr can support multi-core processor. > > Kenji Arisawa mtrrs work on any number of processors. it is plan 9's vesa which does not. - erik

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-15 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Hello Geoff, I am glad if mtrr makes effect only to single processor until the mtrr can support multi-core processor. Kenji Arisawa On 2009/06/10, at 6:18, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: I've just pushed out kernel sources and binaries to incorporate Aki's mtrr and vesa changes. The combin

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-12 Thread James Tomaschke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > Great, but is in-compatible with QEMU. Using KVM(QEMU) it is working for me. At first I got some aux/vga error on init, after recompiling /sys/src/cmd it seemed to work just fine. Did not investigate any further. -BEG

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > 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 >

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-12 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 06/10/2009 02:51 AM, ge...@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 t

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-09 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
> 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. thank you! i'm using it on a lenovo T61p; it definitely feels faster.

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-09 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Thanks Geoff, That made great effect to my VIA LN1EG! Kenji Arisawa On 2009/06/10, at 6:18, ge...@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 fa

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jun 9 19:30:32 EDT 2009, m...@acm.jhu.edu wrote: > > On Tue Jun 9 17:20:12 EDT 2009, ge...@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 s

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-09 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
> On Tue Jun 9 17:20:12 EDT 2009, ge...@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. What got

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-09 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Jun 9 17:20:12 EDT 2009, ge...@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

[9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-09 Thread geoff
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