Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix regression introduced by disabling accelerated scrolling in fbcon

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:03:17PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> 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.
> 
> This series has been discussed on linux-fbdev, dri-devel and linux-kernel
> mailing lists. The consensus is that they will be reverted, but in addition
> it's being worked on to find a solution which allows to disable parts of the
> classic fbdev hardware acceleration code which isn't needed in DRM-only
> configurations.

That's not my take at least.

> The patchset is planned to be kept in fbdev's for-next git branch and later
> pushed into kernel v5.18 if no issues are found until then.

Neither this. I don't think we've resovled maintainership of fbdev core
code and fbcon yet. That is the part that drm folks very much still
maintained, as a quick git shortlog will show.

Maintaining these parts outside of drm trees just doesn't make sense,
since none of the other graphics relevant development happens outside of
drm.
-Daniel

> 
> Helge
> 
> ---
> Changes in v2 compared to v1:
> - adjusted the stable tags (one v5.10+, the other v5.16+)
> - moved the analysis and reasoning why those should be reverted into
>   the commit message. That simplifies to analyze later why they were
>   reverted.
> - resorted the To an Cc mail recipient lists
> 
> Helge Deller (2):
>   Revert "fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1
>     (from TODO list)"
>   Revert "fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling"
> 
>  Documentation/gpu/todo.rst              |  24 --
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/bitblit.c      |  16 +
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c        | 540 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.h        |  59 +++
>  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 +-
>  11 files changed, 703 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.31.1
> 

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch