Hi Steve,
I'd like to report my success with softdevice on my Eden powered ME6000 mini-itx mainboard built on Debian.
I'm using: Kernel 2.6.11 DirectFB-0.9.22 DFB++-0.9.22 VDR 1.3.23 Softdevice-0.1.1 Streamdev-0.3.3-pre3-geni
Performance. On the whole, great.
Now that sounds interesting!
Which framebuffer driver do you use? From Nicolas and my tests, the driver from hacker2k has some problems with modes, but works with DirectFB and softdevice; the viaarena driver provides correct modes, but does not work with DirectFB (and therefore not with softdevice and vdr). In fact, the original driver does not even compile on kernel 2.6.11; Nicolas provided some patches here, but failed to get it working with DirectFB.
bye, Michael