[PATCH] vt_buffer: drop console buffer copying optimisations

[One Thousand Gnomes]

On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:00:55 +0000
Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

> On 9 February 2015 at 10:49, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> >> On 5 February 2015 at 11:35, One Thousand Gnomes
> >> <gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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


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