[PATCH 2/2] Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"

Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann at suse.de
Mon Jan 24 16:11:46 UTC 2022


Hi

Am 24.01.22 um 16:50 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:33 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de> wrote:
>> With fbdev emulation, every DRM driver is an fbdev driver too. So
> 
> Some are even without?
> 
> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c:     ret = register_framebuffer(info);

Well, I counted this as 'emulation' as well. There's fully 
driver-agnostic fbdev support in DRM, but some drivers still run their 
own. At some point, we want all drivers to use DRM's generic solution.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                          Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org
> 
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> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                  -- Linus Torvalds

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