Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs

[David Vrabel]

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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