> I was curious to see how performance differs from vesa. me, too. radeon performance is not good with vesa.
> meanwhile, am I right if I think that the whole graphics math is done > on cpu (I mean - not on gpu), so the faster the cpu the better vesa > (and any) driver performance? cpu speed seems to have little to do with it. the main slowdown is reading from the hardware framebuffer, which plan 9 does a lot. on many modern cards there is no phsical framebuffer. it's constructed by firmware (perhaps running in smm mode on the cpu) on-the-fly. > Proprietary drivers use gpu and many > things built in the graphics controller and so they unload the cpu. > Plan 9 drivers are there to initialize and set up the device, scroll > and fill and this is, basically all, right? If this is so, the brute > force through powerful cpu + vesa is easiest solution, the way to go. i think it's mainly a question of getting the best graphics performance. but these days the 2d accelleration (especially for radeon) is fairly poor. i'd love to have my nvidia mx400 back with a pcie interface. - erik
