Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Steven Chamberlain writes: > On 09:30, Christoph Egger wrote: >> FWIW do we want this uploaded? Can probably do so in the evening (PDT) > > Yes please, whenever you have time (upload to experimental of course). FWIW it seems to boot on my computer but as soon as the i915kms driver should initial

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Steven Chamberlain writes: > On 11/09/14 00:27, Christoph Egger wrote: >> MAKEFLAGS=-j4 make MACHINE_ARCH=amd64 -DWITHOUT_SOURCELESS >> -DWITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC WERROR= -DWITHOUT_CTF -DWITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS >> -DWITHOUT_SSP CC=clang-3.4 -C >> flavor-10.1-0-amd64/sys/modules/aic7xxx/ firmware >> ( c

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Steven Chamberlain writes: > On 09:30, Christoph Egger wrote: >> FWIW do we want this uploaded? Can probably do so in the evening (PDT) > > Yes please, whenever you have time (upload to experimental of course). # We must rebuild firmware from sources, per the DFSG CFLAGS='-D_GNU_SOURCE -isystem

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-10 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, On 11/09/14 00:27, Christoph Egger wrote: > MAKEFLAGS=-j4 make MACHINE_ARCH=amd64 -DWITHOUT_SOURCELESS > -DWITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC WERROR= -DWITHOUT_CTF -DWITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS > -DWITHOUT_SSP CC=clang-3.4 -C flavor-10.1-0-amd64/sys/modules/aic7xxx/ > firmware > ( cd aicasm ; make aicas

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-10 Thread Christoph Egger
Steven Chamberlain writes: > On 21/08/14 02:38, Ed Maste wrote: >> There is a patch in discussion to fix the vt_vga performance issue >> [...] >> We plan to get a version of this into 10.1-RELEASE. > > Performing much better after the batch of MFCs this past week. Thanks! FWIW do we want this up

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-10 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 09:30, Christoph Egger wrote: > FWIW do we want this uploaded? Can probably do so in the evening (PDT) Yes please, whenever you have time (upload to experimental of course). Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-09-09 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 21/08/14 02:38, Ed Maste wrote: > There is a patch in discussion to fix the vt_vga performance issue > [...] > We plan to get a version of this into 10.1-RELEASE. Performing much better after the batch of MFCs this past week. Thanks! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org -- To

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-08-20 Thread Ed Maste
On 20 August 2014 15:56, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Hi, > > I've tested for this vt(4) issue in upstream's own kernel build from: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/10.0-STABLE > and it is affected as well. It is only a problem when using Qemu with > the "-enable-kvm" option (an

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-08-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi, I've tested for this vt(4) issue in upstream's own kernel build from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/10.0-STABLE and it is affected as well. It is only a problem when using Qemu with the "-enable-kvm" option (and some virtualisation platforms will do this) : On 08/08/14 01

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-08-07 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 25/07/14 19:42, Ed Maste wrote: > On 22 July 2014 17:12, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> I've seen the exact same thing under plain Qemu: newcons in VGA mode >> seems very slow (but not as serious as you describe in Hyper-V). > > Can you quantify "very slow?" I've been testing vt(4) in QEMU on

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-07-28 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 25/07/14 19:42, Ed Maste wrote: > vt(4), text mode: > kern.vty=vt > hw.vga.textmode=1 Thanks, I didn't realise the new vt(4) actually still has a text mode. > It should be possible to start with hw.vga.textmode=1 and then have > i915kms take over once X starts, giving graphics-mode consoles fr

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-07-28 Thread Jan Henke
Am 25.07.2014 um 20:42 schrieb Ed Maste: >> On 22/07/14 19:58, Jan Henke wrote: >>> I am experiencing a strange problem with the current kFreeBSD weekly >>> image. Whenever the system is writing to the screen in text mode (e.g. >>> directly after selecting one entry in GRUB: "Copyright") you ca

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-07-25 Thread Ed Maste
> On 22/07/14 19:58, Jan Henke wrote: >> I am experiencing a strange problem with the current kFreeBSD weekly >> image. Whenever the system is writing to the screen in text mode (e.g. >> directly after selecting one entry in GRUB: "Copyright") you can >> literally watch every single character p

Bug#755739: VGA-mode newcons very slow

2014-07-22 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Package: src:kfreebsd-10 Version: 10.0-6 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: jan.he...@taujhe.de Hi Jan, On 22/07/14 19:58, Jan Henke wrote: > I am experiencing a strange problem with the current kFreeBSD weekly > image. Whenever the system is writing to the screen in text mode (e.g. > directly aft