Hi, > > fbcon could do the same, i.e. render to fbdev in a 60Hz timer instead of > > doing it synchronously. > > Yeah, and if you use the shadow fb support in drm fbdev helpers, > that's what you get. Maybe we should just make that the default, since > that would also greatly simply stuff like modesetting support for > fbdev. Yep, that helps of course. I was thinking more about the chars + attrs + font -> framebuffer step in the fbcon rendering pipeline though where one could do something simliar to save even more cpu cycles. take care, Gerd
