Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 08:00:43 +0100 From: Lars Koeller <Lars.Koeller@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> To: freebsd-announce%freefall.FreeBSD.org.freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: ANNOUNCE: Fastvid module available! Message-ID: <199801090700.AA299089244@pollux.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de>
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Hi!
Jonh Dyson and I have hacked a DOS fastvid equivalent lkm for
FreeBSD. It enables VGA banked and VGA linear frame buffer Write
Combining for Pentium Pro and Pentium-II based mainboards.
It's only a skeleton up to now. You have to figure out the video
memory base address and size by reviewing the X server startup
output (look into the README)!
Up to now this lkm lacks SMP support.
I would be happy to hear from you about any improvement! Perhaps it
could be integrated into the 3.0-RELEASE. The speedup
can be quickly tested with xengine or xbench (roughly a factor of 2)!
The URL is
ftp://ftp.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/pub/systems/FreeBSD/lkoeller/fastvid.tar.gz
Have fun
Lars
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