On N, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +0000, Roman Mamedov wrote: > > As for Gentoo, I don't know, is there even a way to use it on the > Yeeloong > without having to personally compile every singly package you install? > Because that's certainly not what I would want to do on a slow > netbook.
As Matt already told in your quoted text (I don't have his original mail in my box yet): > Gentoo has n32/multilib > stage4s with pre-built Xfce available on our mirrors in > /experimental/mips/desktop-loongson2f/ So you can have a fully-fledged XFCE4 desktop image as a starting point and add on what you need, and gradually upgrade things to newer versions when you can afford some CPU usage. It's not THAT slow really, definitely not as slow as the 166MHz computers I started out with on Gentoo :) Also, pixman and the likes is where it becomes interesting for performance. Matt's optimizations for using the loongson multimedia instruction set on loongson2f (which is very similar to MMX) for greater software graphics performance, etc. Now if someone would figure out any graphics driver caused slowness and fix that, it'd be nice. It could probably do a lot better easily, but with XAA performance regressed in xserver and by now outright removed, it's probably a very sad story with EXA, while it could be made to at least not be slower than pure software which I suspect it is. You essentially WANT everything to be pure software on that "GPU" without EXA or XAA trying to accelerate, but not just straight NoAccel option as you'd then lose Xvideo too. Someone maybe could test how it is these days for 2D graphics performance with cairo-perf benchmarks suite with NoAccel and without it. But the bottom-line is - for graphics performance on yeeloong with its very old awful SMI 2D-silicon without alpha compsiting graphics you can really only accelerate with pixman in software, and make sure graphics driver doesn't decelerate by moving pixmaps around a lot for the very few things that can be accelerated, as that highly offsets any potential gains. Unfortunately while my expertise could allow to see what can be improved and do so, I haven't had any unpaid free hobby time for that. NoAccel comparisons could be interesting, to see if driver gets in the way. Best, Mart Raudsepp _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list gNewSense-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev