Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Mar 2005 23:26:27 +0000 | From | David Vrabel <> | 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?
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