Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas White
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:27:13 +0100 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Now for someone to find the time to try this ;-) I applied the latest BFS patch to the andy-tracking branch of the kernel but it wouldn't build - probably an indication of my noob kernel skills rather than the

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph Reeves
Great, thanks Tom, I'll have a look at that later. Does it seem to make any difference for you? Cheers, Joseph 2009/9/9 Thomas White t...@bitwiz.org.uk: On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 15:27:13 +0100 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Now for someone to find the time to try this ;-) I

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas White
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:43:49 +0100 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Great, thanks Tom, I'll have a look at that later. Does it seem to make any difference for you? It's difficult to say, really. I haven't done any scientific tests, but it feels a little faster in some areas

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas White
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:43:49 +0100 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: Great, thanks Tom, I'll have a look at that later. Does it seem to make any difference for you? It's difficult to say, really. I haven't done any scientific tests, but it feels a little faster in some areas

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:27:13PM +0100, Joseph Reeves wrote: Now for someone to find the time to try this ;-) I applied the latest BFS patch to the andy-tracking branch of the kernel but it wouldn't build - probably an indication of my noob kernel skills rather than the applicability of the

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:50:43AM +0300, Markus T�rnqvist wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:27:13PM +0100, Joseph Reeves wrote: Now for someone to find the time to try this ;-) I applied the latest BFS patch to the andy-tracking branch of the kernel but it wouldn't build - probably an

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabrar...@ansol.org wrote: http://twitter.com/cyanogen/status/3836404163 One last thing.. you know the lag you get when your phone rings and it doesn't display right away? Yeah thats gone now. On a wl500 router the performance hit is 1.5 time

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph Reeves
SHR + 2.6.31 + BFS + OpenWRT drivers = win? 2009/9/8 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabrar...@ansol.org wrote: http://twitter.com/cyanogen/status/3836404163 One last thing.. you know the lag you get when your phone rings and

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:04:56AM +0100, Joseph Reeves wrote: SHR + 2.6.31 + BFS + OpenWRT drivers = win? Would appear that way if someone had the time and environment; I really loved the Android stuff on Twitter :) -- mjt ___ Openmoko community

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Joseph Reevesiknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: SHR + 2.6.31 + BFS + OpenWRT drivers = win? +KMS Laszlo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
What's up with the drivers from OpenWRT? Are they different? Why aren't they merged? On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 11:04:56AM +0100, Joseph Reeves wrote: SHR + 2.6.31 + BFS + OpenWRT drivers = win? 2009/9/8 Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Rui Miguel

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph Reeves
What's up with the drivers from OpenWRT? Are they different? Why aren't they merged? I've only really read on here about them, but I'm told that some are complete rewrites that provide potentially big improvements. Don't know about their status in other distributions, however. Forgot to add +

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-06 Thread Joseph Reeves
- just to see if it makes any difference at all.  Now for someone to find the time to try this ;-) -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Interesting-Linux-development-for-lower-resources-machines-from-Con-Kolivas-tp3566462p3567588.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing

Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/ Con Kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past before storming off in 2007, has posted a new scheduler called BFS. It was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. ie it is a

Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/ Con Kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past before storming off in 2007, has posted a new scheduler called BFS. It was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. ie it is a

RE: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Niels Heyvaert
http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/ Con Kolivas, who worked on desktop interactivity issues in the past before storming off in 2007, has posted a new scheduler called BFS. It was designed to be forward looking only, make the most of lower spec machines, and not scale to massive hardware. ie it

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Markus T�rnqvist
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:01:46PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: http://lwn.net/Articles/350100/ Reading the FAQ text and reactions on LWN it appears to me that the author has no intention whatsoever to merge this into the mainline kernel tree... But aren't there vendor kernels for the moko

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:01:46PM +, Niels Heyvaert wrote: Reading the FAQ text and reactions on LWN it appears to me that the author has no intention whatsoever to merge this into the mainline kernel tree... BEcause his precedent work was not merged for years? I would not expect to be

RE: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Niels Heyvaert
Reading the FAQ text and reactions on LWN it appears to me that the author has no intention whatsoever to merge this into the mainline kernel tree... BEcause his precedent work was not merged for years? I would not expect to be merged either ... I dont think he would opposed the merge.

RE: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread c_c
to find the time to try this ;-) -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Interesting-Linux-development-for-lower-resources-machines-from-Con-Kolivas-tp3566462p3567588.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: Interesting Linux development for lower resources machines from Con Kolivas

2009-09-02 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Niels Heyvaertnielsheyva...@hotmail.com wrote: Because it's designed in such a way that mainline would never be interested in adopting it, which is how I like it. I think in Solaris the sheduler are pluggable. Ie, it can be swapped. In linux its hardwired, and