Fbcon over efifb is so slow that I thought I needed a faster modem. It turns out that scrolling boot messages at 1024x768 pixels with uncached accesses can take longer than every other step of kernel bootup *combined*. Fixing it is a one-liner, but I found some bugs while I was digging around. One is a mismatched resource release (although not on my box), one is a harmless compiler warning, and one fixes all manner of badness that happens if you manually bind or unbind the efifb driver. The speedup may or may not be 2.6.40 material, but the other fixes should probably go in. (2/4 and 4/4 are possibly -stable candidates.) Andy Lutomirski (4): efifb: Enable write-combining efifb: Fix mismatched request/release_mem_region efifb: Fix an integer-to-pointer size warning efifb: Disallow manual bind and unbind Andy Lutomirski (4): efifb: Enable write-combining efifb: Fix mismatched request/release_mem_region efifb: Fix an integer-to-pointer size warning efifb: Disallow manual bind and unbind drivers/video/efifb.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) -- 1.7.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
