On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:02:40AM +0100, James Simmons wrote:

Please test. The pixmap code in the framebuffer layer was designed to 
align the font data. For some hardware it is required that each scanline 
end on a byte boundary but for some  it was to be 32 bit aligned. So the
solution was to take the image data and padded it to what the hardware 
needs. At present it does this by coping on byte at a time. This is just 
plain awful. So this patch copies data a whole scanline at a time. It is
a big performance boost. Please test before I send it to Linus. Thank 
you.

What about getting rid of one-char putc, implementing it in terms of
putcs? I'm doing it in matroxfb patches, and nobody complained yet, and
with current length of {fbcon,accel}_putc{s,} I was not able to find
measurable speed difference between putc and putc through putcs variants.
						Thanks,
							Petr Vandrovec
							vandrove@vc.cvut.cz