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2020 Oct 30
1
[PATCH] fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling
...ce clearing and cursor > +support is still accelerated, which might be good candidates for further > +deletion projects. Apparently omapdrm's accelerated panning has been broken for some time, and no one has noticed. It does: strcmp(fbi->fix.id, MODULE_NAME), which is a comparison of omapdrmdrmfb == omapdrm and always fails. Fixing that, and applying this patch, things work fine (unaccelerated, of course). I did notice a single call to omap_fbdev_pan_display() when loading the drivers. This comes from fbcon_switch -> bit_update_start -> fb_pan_display. Maybe this is from the clearing...
2020 Oct 29
4
[PATCH 1/3] fbcon: Disable accelerated scrolling
So ever since syzbot discovered fbcon, we have solid proof that it's full of bugs. And often the solution is to just delete code and remove features, e.g. 50145474f6ef ("fbcon: remove soft scrollback code"). Now the problem is that most modern-ish drivers really only treat fbcon as an dumb kernel console until userspace takes over, and Oops printer for some emergencies. Looking at