fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration
Helge Deller
deller at gmx.de
Thu Jan 13 16:36:22 UTC 2022
I may have missed some discussions, but I'm objecting against this patch:
b3ec8cdf457e5 ("fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list)")
Can we please (partly) revert it and restore the scrolling behaviour,
where fbcon uses fb_copyarea() to copy the screen contents instead of
redrawing the whole screen?
I'm fine with dropping the ypan-functionality.
Maybe on fast new x86 boxes the performance difference isn't huge,
but for all old systems, or when emulated in qemu, this makes
a big difference.
Helge
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