On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:

> > I guess that depends on whether there is ever likely to be support for the
> > FPA in the ARM7500FE. If the answer is no, then do it. However, I would
> > expect a speed up for X11 with an FPA and I'm quite interested in using
> > things like NCs as X terminals. They are not overendowed with processing
> > power and so any gain would be useful.
> 
> Would more gain be found by actually tweaking the X server code?  I presume 
> these boxes use the vidc and DRAM combination for X.

That's right. I'm looking at a few options. I'm trying to resurrect Peter
Berg's libmultimedia code to avoid having to use X for some of the
graphics applications I have in mind. This should free up a whole load of
RAM.

Of course, it's all a moot point until I get NetBSD properly booted on a
NC. It mounts it's root filesystem over the network, but then hangs.

-- 
Stephen