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    SubjectRe: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]
    Hi!

    > > Ug!!! This is getting bad. Give me some time. I plan on releasing a new
    > > vesafb using MMX to help speed up the drawing routines. It will help alot
    > > with the latency issues. I also know using ARM assembly we can greatly
    > > reduce the latency issues.
    >
    > There is another issue with vesafb. It tries to use an MTRR, but this
    > fails for the 2.5MB region that is video RAM because 2.5MB is not a
    > power of two.
    >
    > The console driver does not actually use 2.5MB. Does it make sense to
    > use an MTRR for the smaller power-of-two region?

    I had patch which tried that at one point. Just try all 2^n numbers
    <= size until it succeeds.
    Pavel
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