Subject: Re: Sep 18 softfloat build of NetBSD release 2.0 beta
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.org>
From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.jussieu.fr>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/28/2004 14:03:07
> I would have thought that kdrive would be a poor choice for mac68k.

> Part of the reason that Keith Packard has given for writing the fb
> code used by kdrive is the change in the relative speed of CPUs and
> memory since mfb, cfb etc... were written.

Fb will never be as fast as mfb, but I'd expect it to be comparable to
cfb or cfb32.  It's definitely faster than cfb24.

Doesn't XFree86 4.3 use fb on all platforms anyhow?

> I think that we ought to use kdrive on the hpc* ports though.

What's hpc?

                                        Juliusz