Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:36:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:36:28 -0500 Received: from pine.compass.com.ph ([202.70.96.37]:5706 "HELO pine.compass.com.ph") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 05:35:56 -0500 Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: FBdev updates. From: Antonino Daplas To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: James Simmons , Petr Vandrovec , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Fbdev development list In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1045824362.1202.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 21 Feb 2003 18:46:44 +0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1438 Lines: 80 On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 17:09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On 21 Feb 2003, Antonino Daplas wrote: > > Note: I cannot test with 12x22 fonts in 2.4 because some/most drivers do > > not support it. > > Which specific drivers are you talking about? All drivers for popular cards > support fontwidth 12 (Matrox, ATI, nVidia, 3Dfx, Permedia, VESA, ...). > > You're absolutely correct, I'm wondering why I thought that :-) Here's a benchmark for 12x22, and it's 2x slower than 8x16, 2.4.x or 2.5.x. Still, the 2.5.x version is slower than 2.4.x. Tony no accel scrollmode: yredraw font: 12x22 visual: packed pixels time cat /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS linux 2.4.20 bpp8 ---- real 0m4.984s user 0m0.000s sys 0m4.940s bpp16 ----- real 0m9.188s user 0m0.000s sys 0m9.090s bpp24 ----- real 0m14.574s user 0m0.000s sys 0m14.380s bpp32 ----- real 0m18.578s user 0m0.000s sys 0m18.390s linux-2.5.62 bpp8 ---- real 0m5.247s user 0m0.001s sys 0m5.245s bpp16 ----- real 0m9.640s user 0m0.001s sys 0m9.591s bpp24 ----- real 0m15.943s user 0m0.001s sys 0m15.944s bpp32 ----- real 0m19.653s user 0m0.002s sys 0m19.651s - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/