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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:26:27 +0000
From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> There are a few Geode tricks to know for performance
> 
> - If you can't turn it off use solid areas of colour to speed the system
> up (The hardware uses RLE encoding to reduce ram fetch bandwidth)

How much of a difference does the compression make to performance?

> - The onboard audio is a software SB emulation on older GX. It burns
> CPU.

Presumably one could write a native audio driver that didn't use the 
soundblaster emulation?

David Vrabel
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