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

[Gavin W. Burris aka 86]

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
Senior Systems Programmer
Penn State Visualization Group
http://viz.aset.psu.edu/ga5in