Re: Pinebook Pro images

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

/dev/rld0, you mean?

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 2:30 PM Nikita <nekiti%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Benny,
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> please make a little fix to you blog post here https://bentsukun.ch/posts/pinebook-pro-netbsd/
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> "The only difference is that the target device is called /dev/ld0”, not ld0d.
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> —
> N
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> On 26. Aug 2022, at 23.40, Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
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> Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 1:55 PM Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
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> Nothing has changed with the display, glxgears would be running OpenGL
> on the CPU in both cases.
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> Your 9.99.92 installation might have been using an older version of the
> Xorg server but that shouldn't make any difference to how fast it runs.
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>
> My older installation had the X binaries from NetBSD-9. In that
> installation, if I boot a 9.9.99 kernel, Firefox is noticeably slower,
> to the point of being almost unusable. I wonder what changed.
>
> Was it the new DRM code that was imported?
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>
> No, there won't be any real difference between how things are getting
> drawn on the screen, it will be the CPU doing it.
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> You could check Xorg.?.log for both to see if it is using gallium or
> not, it should be compiling OpenGL commands to aarch64 machine code
> on the fly.
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> The real speedup will come when the panfrost DRM driver has been ported
> to NetBSD. I have one more source file to get to build for it but am
> debugging the lima driver first, they share some code.
>
> I was hoping to use a Quartz64 board to debug panfrost but the NetBSD
> kernel for it doesn't use FDT, I don't have a Pinebook Pro.
>
> Robert Swindells
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>


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Benny