On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:16:26PM -0700, Daryll Strauss wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 10:56:35PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:25:48PM +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > > I expect to have Alpha Linux packages online too, within the week.
> > >
> > Alpha (compiled with -mcpu=ev5) Packages are now up too.
>
> -mcpu=ev56 would be a substantial improvement to performance. The only
> question is whether to not we'd leave any ev5 users out by doing
> that. My guess is that ev5 is so old and slow that no one is going to
> care about 3D graphics on it. As far as I know the only ev5 that was
> popular for linux was the old UMB systems and they're only as fast as an
> old pentium 166Mhz.
>
Sure thing. I certainly know it gives a large performance boost using
the later instruction set, giving that it gives us byte/word memory access.
I was intending to put up ev6 ones too, but does any here know the performance
to gain from ev56 to ev6 ? In fact, there's also ev67 now too.
Any objections ?
Alan.
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