On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 08:22:48PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > You don't need to enable it, but for alpha it's probably beneficial to enable it. > When enabled, you will see a big speed improvement when logging in to a graphics text > console and printing info. E.g. try "time dmesg" with and without that option... > The "dmesg" will scroll the screen, and that's what it accelerates (only if the driver > has such hardware bitblt-support). v5.17-rc2 ok. v5.17-rc3 I get the disk sector errors and hang that I reported in the first message in this thread. (Unrelated, I *did* enable the framebuffer option, and that part of the boot worked just fine.) I'm going to try a native build of '-rc3' just to rule out any cross-compiler strangeness. Should have something to report in another 34 hours or so :-(. --Bob
