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From: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	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 10:35:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPj87rM7bSdBmvOha4bc9BHi7Pb_9NhCW6sRjPGq=e-jqug9yw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150205113551.48094713@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

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).

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 10:35 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 [this message]
2015-02-09 10:49           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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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