[ubuntu-x] review in phoronix: "The [new] Intel Linux Driver Kills The Netbook Experience [but it's improving]"

[Michael Larabel]

Yep, will be glad to run some tests with Alpha 3.

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Michael Larabel - btw Alpha-3 (due next week) would be a good candidate
> to do performance testing/comparisons against, for -intel.  We're
> anticipating including the 2.8.0 driver in that, which fixes a bunch of
> KMS issues and should largely solve the jaunty performance problems.
>
> In fact even alpha-2 is a pretty solid advance for non-KMS cases and
> should compare well against jaunty.  Alpha-2 fixed a metric ton of
> issues that had been reported against Jaunty, between the 2.6.30 kernel
> and the updated X infrastructure (xserver+mesa+libdrm+-intel).
>
> Bryce
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:37:15AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
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>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_atom_os&num=2
>> "Beginning with the Java 2D Microbenchmark, the vector graphics
>> performance was many times better under OpenSolaris 2009.06. However,
>> the reason for this is quite simple. OpenSolaris 2009.06 continues to
>> use all of the older X.Org/Mesa packages that were released previous
>> to all of the invasive work that was done for the Graphics Execution
>> Manager, DRI2, and kernel mode-setting. For months in many articles we
>> have been talking about how the Intel 2D/3D performance has been
>> drastically degraded and The Intel Linux Driver Kills The Netbook
>> Experience. With Ubuntu 9.04 using the newer (bugged) Intel code while
>> OpenSolaris is lagging behind with the X/Mesa packages is actually of
>> benefit to Sun, but hopefully by the time the next OpenSolaris release
>> rolls around (and Ubuntu 9.10), all of these Intel issues will be
>> corrected. Some of the performance issues are in fact already
>> corrected in their latest kernel, DDX, and Mesa code."
>>
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