This series reverts two patches which disabled scrolling acceleration in
fbcon/fbdev. Those patches introduced a regression for fbdev-supported graphic
cards because of the performance penalty by doing screen scrolling by software
instead of using existing 2D hardware acceleration.
The third patch introduces a new config option
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION, which -if enabled- switches
fbcon to utilize the bitblt and fillrect hardware acceleration in the
framebuffer console. If disabled, such acceleration will not be used, even if
it is supported by the graphics hardware driver.
This series is being discussed on linux-fbdev and dri-devel mailing lists.
Updates in v3:
- respin with fixes to build rotation code
Updates in v4:
- changed the Kconfig option and Kconfig help text
Helge Deller (3):
Revert "fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1
(from TODO list)"
Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"
fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware acceleration
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 24 -
drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 20 +
drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c | 16 +
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 557 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h | 72 +++
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_ccw.c | 28 +-
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_cw.c | 28 +-
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.h | 9 +
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_ud.c | 37 +-
drivers/video/fbdev/core/tileblit.c | 16 +
drivers/video/fbdev/skeletonfb.c | 12 +-
include/linux/fb.h | 2 +-
12 files changed, 753 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
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2.34.1
