[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/5] drm/i915: don't memset the fb buffer

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:56:56 +0000
Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 10:20:48AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > It may be in use, let fbcon do it later if needed.
> 
> Sadly we need to memset the stolen buffer in some circumstances, so we
> need a bit more smarts. Upon resume and if !preallocated are the cases
> that spring to mind. Maybe we can add a flag to ifbdev when we can skip
> the clear?

Yeah, we need something... clearing creates ugly artifacts in some
cases that I'd like to avoid.

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Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center