[ltp] T42p and open source hardware accelerated OpenGL = SUCCESS

[Gavin W. Burris aka 86]

Does anyone have SPECviewperf results with the open source r300 driver?

Cheers.

Gavin W. Burris aka 86 wrote:
> I should mention a quick howto, since it is not intuative.
> 
> 
> tar xzvf SPECViewperf81.tar.gz
> cd SPECViewperf81/src/
> ./Configure
> cd ..
> ./Run_All.csh
> 
> 
> David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
>>
>>> glxgears is a poor benchmark, being so simple.  I am interested in 
>>> more telling benchmarks.
>>
>>
>>
>>     Agreed, however.. its like measuring something by using the width 
>> of your fingernail as a ruler. As long as you use the same fingernail 
>> to measure two things, you can discern a difference (improvement or 
>> otherwise). That is why I was using glxgears in these cases, to see if 
>> my changes were having positive or negative affects.
>>
>>> Can you try running SPECviewperf and post your results, please? I'd 
>>> really appreciate it. http://www.spec.org/gpc/downloadindex.html
>>
>>
>>
>>     Sure.. its crawling along at 7k/sec, so this should take about 13 
>> hours to download. This must be one enormous binary buried in here, or 
>> a LOT of source to build this benchmarking tool.
>>
>>
>> David A. Desrosiers
>> desrod@gnu-designs.com
>> http://gnu-designs.com
>>
> 

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Gavin W. Burris aka 86
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Penn State Visualization Group
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