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Date:      Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:29 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        None <imachine@lazir.toya.net.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mgadrm fail in -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <1114366769.965.0.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <20050423160713.GA24432@lazir.toya.net.pl>
References:  <20050423005715.G16129@it.hackers> <1114212379.955.15.camel@leguin> <20050423184110.O37477@it.hackers> <20050423160713.GA24432@lazir.toya.net.pl>

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On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 18:07 +0200, None wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:43:00PM +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > 
> > >On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 01:01 +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote:
> > >>Hello All,
> > >>I've just compiled -CURRENT (cvsup some hours ago) and the magdrm seemed
> > >>to be fail.
> > >>Last week's -CURRENT build was okay.
> > >
> > >Do you have device drm in your kernel?
> > >Did you do a clean build?
> > >
> > 
> > Aha, I checked the config/NOTES and noticed that the new line: device drm
> > Thank you :)
> > 
> > >There's no real reason to be building the drm into the kernel that I can
> > >see, as it's automatically loaded for you by the X Server.
> 
> i might be off here, and dont intend to cause any offtopicness, altho i
> was informed perhaphs wrongly, that kernel-builtin drivers are having
> some speed improvements compared to loaded modules?

I've never seen any measurements showing that that's the case, and would
highly doubt there being any measurable effect.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                     eta@lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt@FreeBSD.org



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