Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser.

[Jan Engelhardt]

>>> With the framebuffer console, you can increase the size of the scrollback
>>> buffer with the boot option:
>>>
>>> fbcon=scrollback:<n> (default is 32K)
>> 
>> On x86-64 vesafb is unusable slow because it does CPU scrolling cause
>> it can't use the vesa BIOS - and the others don't work everywhere. So I don't
>> think fbcon is an usable replacement.
>
>How about vga16fb + fbcon? If scrolling is slow in vga16fb, fbset -vyres 800 should
>increase performance significantly.
>

Benchmarks first.


Jan Engelhardt
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