[SPARCbook] What software improvments?

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:46:36AM -0400, Thomas Roehr wrote:

> When you say better console support, do you mean better then the CG3 hack that
> is currently used, i.e. take advantage of the p9100 acceleration chip?

I don't know.  What I do know, however, is that Linux on my Sparcbook uses
the PROM-style console, not the framebuffer console that it does on any
other Sun-a-like, and that this is unbearably slow.

Maybe there's a driver in later versions, I'm still using 2.2.18.

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