This series reverts two patches which disabled scrolling acceleration in fbcon/fbdev. Those patches introduced a regression for fbdev-supported graphic cards because of the performance penalty by doing screen scrolling by software instead of using existing 2D hardware acceleration.
The third patch introduces a new config option CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_LEGACY_ACCELERATION, which -if enabled- switches fbcon to utilize the bitblt and fillrect hardware acceleration in the framebuffer console. If disabled, such acceleration will not be used, even if it is supported by the graphics hardware driver.
This series is being discussed on linux-fbdev and dri-devel mailing lists.
Helge
Helge Deller (3): Revert "fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list)" Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling" fbcon: Add option to enable legacy hardware acceleration
Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 24 - drivers/video/console/Kconfig | 11 + drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c | 16 + drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 557 +++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h | 72 +++ drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_ccw.c | 28 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_cw.c | 28 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.h | 9 + drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_ud.c | 37 +- drivers/video/fbdev/core/tileblit.c | 16 + drivers/video/fbdev/skeletonfb.c | 12 +- include/linux/fb.h | 2 +- 12 files changed, 744 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)