Subject: None
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/12/2001 22:57:01
> you're *really* going to be much better off if you run X11 on the
> sparc console, even if you simply open a single large xterm and run
> screen inside that. the issue is that updating the text console
> requires serious CPU, and is as i'm sure you've noticed, quite
> slow... this is basically cuz it's a completely rendered text
> console. X is *much* faster.
I don't see how the X server rendering text into the framebuffer is
inherently any faster than the kernel rendering text into the
framebuffer.
Or are you comparing versus a non-RASTERCONSOLE kernel? The problem
then is bouncing all the rendering off the PROM routines, which *are*
inefficient (at least in many cases, though there are ROM rev and
framebuffer combinations that do text snappily).
If X *is* significantly faster than the kernel RASTERCONSOLE code, that
indicates not that you should use X (except in the immediate term) but
rather that the kernel code needs work!
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