Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:07:59 +0100 | From | Gerd Hoffmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add Helge as fbdev maintainer |
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Hi,
> > fbcon could do the same, i.e. render to fbdev in a 60Hz timer instead of > > doing it synchronously. > > Yeah, and if you use the shadow fb support in drm fbdev helpers, > that's what you get. Maybe we should just make that the default, since > that would also greatly simply stuff like modesetting support for > fbdev.
Yep, that helps of course. I was thinking more about the chars + attrs + font -> framebuffer step in the fbcon rendering pipeline though where one could do something simliar to save even more cpu cycles.
take care, Gerd
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