VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux

billybob2 writes "VIA has published three programming guides that total 800 pages in length and cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 technologies. The VIA PadLock provides a random number generator, an advanced cryptography engine, and RSA algorithm computations. The VX800 chipset was VIA's first Integrated Graphics Processor, while the CX700 is a System Media Processor designed for the mobile market. This is another step in VIA's strategy to support the development of Free and Open Source drivers under Linux, which comes pre-installed on VIA products such as the Sylvania NetBook, HP Mini-Note, 15.4" gBook, gPC, CloudBook, Zonbu, and VIA OpenBook. Earlier this week, VIA hired Linux kernel developer and GPL-Violations.org founder Harald Welte to be VIA's liason to the Open Source community."

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Re:800 pages in length

[smallfries]

Yike, ranting, raving and selective quoting. You do go for the whole troll don't you. I'm not suprised you didn't understand my point as you quote all of my post but the part that explained it:

Special purpose hardware (like Padlock) is always more efficient than executing a program on general purpose hardware....overhead has been removed and the execution has been optimised for that specific case

So no, it is not pathetic that a 3Ghz general purpose processor can match the special purpose extensions on the C7. Given that the achievable speedup is much larger than the ratio in clock speeds (let alone the extra the Core2 is doing) is shows that the VIA performance is shit.