From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
dri-devel@lists.sf.net, Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt_buffer: drop console buffer copying optimisations
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:49:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdX7rUevAZFgi_yZe1N6v5DkczUo87juJ40gB7r3UfjKDQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPj87rM7bSdBmvOha4bc9BHi7Pb_9NhCW6sRjPGq=e-jqug9yw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On 5 February 2015 at 11:35, One Thousand Gnomes
> <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>> If I'm not mistaken, that would be as simple as adding
>>>
>>> #define VT_BUF_HAVE_RW.
>>> #define scr_writew(val, addr) (*(addr) = (val))
>>> #define scr_readw(addr) (*(addr))
>>>
>>> to arch/x86/include/asm/vga.h.
>>
>> and stick an
>>
>> #if defined (CONFIG_SUPPORT_SHITE_VGA_ADAPTERS)
>>
>> #endif
>>
>> around that and its sorted as an option everyone can leave off but the
>> afflicted.
>
> Well, given all the distros will enable that, might as well be #if
> !defined(CONFIG_BREAK_SOME_HARDWARE_BUT_VGA_SCROLLING_WILL_BE_IMMEASURABLY_FASTER).
All distros on 1 out of 29 architectures?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-09 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-29 4:11 [PATCH] vt_buffer: drop console buffer copying optimisations Dave Airlie
2015-01-29 12:06 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-29 23:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-29 23:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-01-30 0:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-01-30 0:14 ` Dave Airlie
2015-02-03 15:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-05 9:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-02-05 11:35 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-09 10:35 ` Daniel Stone
2015-02-09 10:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2015-02-09 11:00 ` Daniel Stone
2015-02-09 20:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-02-24 16:49 ` Pavel Machek
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