Subject: Re: Updating to -current snapshot, framebuffer performance
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
From: Andy Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/17/1999 02:13:39
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 02:34:39PM +0000, Andy Doran wrote:
> 
> > The slowness with scrolling is down to the hardware and the Xserver's
> > cfb layer. There is code available to accelerate that kind of thing on
> > the sfb, but it's not part of the Xpmax server (at least not right
> > now).
> 
> Anybody working on it?  I've got two PMAGB-Bs (sfbs) I could lend out...

Some work has been done for the sfb on NetBSD/alpha. I would do this
myself, but unfortunately I don't think I could justify the time spent to
my employer.

- ad