[Arm-netbook] Marvell Kirkwood + Volari vs Tegra2, 3 or omap4460

[Gordan Bobic]

Bari Ari wrote:
> Has anybody (Gordan) done any actual testing to measure the performance 
> and feel of the Marvell Kirkwood + Volari vs Tegra2, 3 or omap4430/60 
> with Linux?

In a word - not yet.

Note that the only ARM hardware I have with a mini-PCIe slot is Armada 
based, so I cannot test Kirkwood+Volari. I will get a Volari card at 
some point and test it with the Armada, though.

What kind of performance are you talking about? If you can specify what 
and how you want benchmarked I'll see what I can do.

Tegra2 accelerated binary-only driver is sufficiently buggy that I don't 
use it. I use the dumb frame buffer driver instead as it also lets me 
scrape back 62MB of RAM on my AC100, which is handy on a machine that 
only has a total of 512MB.

I can try to do some video playback performance testing but it'll be at 
least a few weeks before I can get around to it (then again, it'll 
probably be that long before I can get my hands on a Volari mini-PCIe 
card anyway).

I have no Tegra3 or OMAP devices.

Gordan