<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Matt Turner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattst88@gmail.com">mattst88@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:31 PM, jean-francois simon<br> <<a href="mailto:jfsimoncasa@gmail.com">jfsimoncasa@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > Hi,<br> > thanks to the people who provided support for big endian architectures, we<br> > are able to run the 6.12.4 ATI driver on a openSolaris sparc platform (T2000<br> > niagara). the graphic is a PCIe card using a e4690. i can see that the<br> > atombios works fine, it seems, and edid is read OK,...and the gnome desktop<br> > is functional and looks good. plse note that the configuration uses<br> > shadowfb. and i have configured the ATI driver with<br> ><br> > --disable-dri<br> > --disable-exa<br> <br> </div>Uh. Why have you disabled these?<br></blockquote><div><br>there is no DRI under solaris/sparc. i first tried to only disable dri but also had to disable exa to build the driver.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im"><br> </div>So you're trying to figure out why shadowfb is slow?<br> <br></blockquote><div> </div><div>on solaris/sparc, yes. On linux/x86 it is fast enough and would nicely meet my needs.<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It doesn't seem worthwhile to optimize shadowfb. Just try to use EXA,<br> and if it doesn't, report bugs so that you can use it.<br> <font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>i am not trying to optimize it. i want to understand why it runs slow on sparc.<br>-jfs<br> <br></div></div><br>