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

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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(-)

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2.31.1

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