[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer
Gerd Hoffmann
kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Jan 18 12:07:59 UTC 2022
Hi,
> > fbcon could do the same, i.e. render to fbdev in a 60Hz timer instead of
> > doing it synchronously.
>
> Yeah, and if you use the shadow fb support in drm fbdev helpers,
> that's what you get. Maybe we should just make that the default, since
> that would also greatly simply stuff like modesetting support for
> fbdev.
Yep, that helps of course. I was thinking more about the chars + attrs
+ font -> framebuffer step in the fbcon rendering pipeline though where
one could do something simliar to save even more cpu cycles.
take care,
Gerd
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