it seemed that only the graphics.library is slowing it down.
Well, the current state of affairs is that graphics is PPC native now (largely) but not being used as-is because Picasso96 isn't, yet. That's going to be tackled in the coming week.
Apparently the IDE drivers are still unfinished too, but it didn't exactly seem to impact too badly - certianly booted up fast.
Well, the IDE drivers are rather slow at the moment. It shows when running disk-intensive things like the C compiler. Full UDMA drivers are in the works.