From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Bhaskar Chowdhury" <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
"Yuan Ming" <yuanmingbuaa@gmail.com>, "Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>,
"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
"NopNop Nop" <nopitydays@gmail.com>,
张云海 <zhangyunhai@nsfocus.com>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 18:30:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjRDiiqq558v-uqyzSbU2GCL0noxu8gjCW8J3NWXEJBLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915012800.GA17809@Gentoo>
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:28 PM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt: no-scroll [VGA] Disables scrollback.
So this one at least should be still valid.
But these:
> Documentation/fb/fbcon.rst:2. fbcon=scrollback:<value>[k]
> Documentation/fb/fbcon.rst: The scrollback buffer is memory that is used to preserve display
> Documentation/fb/matroxfb.rst: with 'video=scrollback:0'.
> Documentation/fb/sstfb.rst: disable software scrollback, as it can oops badly ...
> Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst: * You'll get scrollback (the Shift-PgUp thing),
> Documentation/fb/vesafb.rst: the video memory can be used as scrollback buffer
now look stale.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-15 1:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <git-mailbomb-linux-master-50145474f6ef4a9c19205b173da6264a644c7489@kernel.org>
2020-09-15 1:18 ` fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch) Randy Dunlap
2020-09-15 1:28 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2020-09-15 1:30 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-09-15 1:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-15 1:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-16 20:54 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-18 10:27 ` Adam Borowski
2020-09-30 21:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-01-08 19:01 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-08 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-12 15:00 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-12 16:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-01-12 15:57 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-14 15:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-14 16:11 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-15 8:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-03 8:03 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-01-22 18:55 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-25 15:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-02 14:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-02 15:13 ` Phillip Susi
2021-02-02 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-14 17:43 ` fbcon: remove soft scrollback code Alan Mackenzie
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