R100 microcode

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 08:17:32 PDT 2008


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 5:43 AM, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:
> Should I expect any benefits from the r100 microcode included in the
> 2.6.26-rc7 kernel's radeon/drm driver on my (128 MB) 7500 M7 LW?
>
> If so, where?  GLX only?  EXA?  XRENDER?

The ucode controls the command processor which is used to feed 2D and
3D commands and data to the card.  The changes are generally bug fixes
and performance improvements, but I don't you'll notice much
difference.

Alex


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