'lo,
I work for an embedded firm, our next hardware platform will be 5536/GeodeLX
(500mhz-ish) based… and I’m curious about SDL performance under linux (or
any other free OS). Graphics speed is important, 24/32bit 800x600 should be
a bare minimum for resolution. I’ve done plenty of low level work work with
the 5535/geode-classic (mediagx)… and that can be made to do alright with
raw/direct hardware access… but the linux drivers for it are slow as snot
(10% of the relevant speed or worse). Does the newer platform also have
this issue ? I’d really like to see SDL used on this platform, it’d make my
life a lot easier for when moving the code base to other platforms and such
in the future.
-Will
“Will Langford” wrote:
and that can be made to do alright with raw/direct
hardware access… but the linux drivers for it are slow as snot (10%
of the relevant speed or worse). Does the newer platform also have
this issue ?
IIRC, directfb has an hardware accelerated driver for geode. IMHO, SDLs
strength is its cross plattform abstraction not its raw speed.
best regards …
clemens
It sounds like you are not suggesting that SDL is causing the slow
speed, but the Linux drivers. You might get a good answer on this
list, but you might want to instead find which GNU/Linux distros
support the platform you’re working with, and ask them instead.On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Will Langford wrote:
'lo,
I work for an embedded firm, our next hardware platform will be 5536/GeodeLX
(500mhz-ish) based… and I’m curious about SDL performance under linux (or
any other free OS). Graphics speed is important, 24/32bit 800x600 should be
a bare minimum for resolution. I’ve done plenty of low level work work with
the 5535/geode-classic (mediagx)… and that can be made to do alright with
raw/direct hardware access… but the linux drivers for it are slow as snot
(10% of the relevant speed or worse). Does the newer platform also have
this issue ? I’d really like to see SDL used on this platform, it’d make my
life a lot easier for when moving the code base to other platforms and such
in the future.
-Will
–
http://codebad.com/
hi,
the OLPC seems to be able to run things fairly fast.
Best to ask on the OLPC lists I think.
cheers,On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Will Langford wrote:
'lo,
I work for an embedded firm, our next hardware platform will be 5536/GeodeLX
(500mhz-ish) based… and I’m curious about SDL performance under linux (or
any other free OS). Graphics speed is important, 24/32bit 800x600 should be
a bare minimum for resolution. I’ve done plenty of low level work work with
the 5535/geode-classic (mediagx)… and that can be made to do alright with
raw/direct hardware access… but the linux drivers for it are slow as snot
(10% of the relevant speed or worse). Does the newer platform also have
this issue ? I’d really like to see SDL used on this platform, it’d make my
life a lot easier for when moving the code base to other platforms and such
in the future.
-Will
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