On Sonntag 17 September 2006 22:17, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:33:37PM +0300, Heikki Lindholm wrote:
> > The included patch makes dfb:mgatv use YV12 colourspace for video and 
> > the hardware subpicture layer for OSD. The patch is a prime example of 
> > bad goal-oriented programming, but does what I wanted: improves 
> > performance to the level that my 450 MHz P2 can now function as a DVB 
> > box like no underpowered P2 has done before! Unfortunately, the patch 
> > probably breaks everything else, but I'm too lazy to clean it up.
> 
> I'm very much interested in this.
> 
> You didn't get rid of the CPU-burning Flip() calls, did you?  At least
> on my system, DirectFB spends about 10% of the CPU cycles waiting for
> MGA engine ready.  Adding a usleep(2000) right before the Flip() call
> reduces the CPU load but risks dropping frames.  I believe it would be
> much more efficient if the Flip() method blocked the thread until the
> hardware is ready.  That would require some new ioctl() in the kernel.

Marko, I think you showed me a response from Ville regarding the ioctl
issue. But unfortunatly I could not find this. 
Was the modification based on the ioctl calls from him at directfb list
which were not committed ?


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Stefan Lucke
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