GLX available?
NoiseEHC
NoiseEHC at freemail.hu
Mon Jan 7 07:50:01 EST 2008
Oh, I did it in May:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-May/005227.html
Got no response but now I know that only Jordan Crouse is reading this
list from AMD and he is concerned with the X driver and not the Geode
core so no luck.
Probably you (the OLPC team) should push AMD to document the
FPU/3DNow/MMX pipeline since my measurements show that the databook is
about a hypothetical processor which does not exists in silicon (of
course I can be wrong). Without this I can guarantee you that no
optimization effort will succeed. See:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-08/msg00452.html
Also it would be nice if they would write something about the L1/L2
cache and the branch predictor. For example the last thing which I tried
to measure is the L1 miss -> L2 hit penalty but could not do it. It
would be much easier if they would document it (write down a number,
that is it)...
Ivan Krstić wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:11 AM, NoiseEHC wrote:
>> The databook of the LX is so low quality that hand optimization requires
>> testing everything
>
> Please feel free to ask questions about the Geode on this list where
> you find the published documentation inadequate. We have some great
> AMD folks here, with a long history of being helpful and friendly to
> us above and beyond the call of duty. They will assist you if at all
> possible.
>
> --
> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | http://radian.org
>
>
>
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