From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: One Thousand Gnomes Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt_buffer: drop console buffer copying optimisations Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 20:17:21 +0000 Message-ID: <20150209201721.528ce9b7__21732.1720709608$1423531824$gmane$org@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1422504685-7864-1-git-send-email-airlied@redhat.com> <20150203155402.4c31c36b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20150205113551.48094713@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Daniel Stone Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Tomi Valkeinen , Geert Uytterhoeven , dri-devel@lists.sf.net, Dave Airlie , Linus Torvalds List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:00:55 +0000 Daniel Stone wrote: > On 9 February 2015 at 10:49, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > >> On 5 February 2015 at 11:35, One Thousand Gnomes > >> wrote: > >>> #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? > > It's a fairly popular architecture. I imagine most distros wouldn't enable it even on x86. It's an incredibly obscure setup from the evidence of how long it took to get reported. Most distributions don't support non PAE processors and other far more common things 8) Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ --