Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-02-03 Thread Phillip Susi
Daniel Vetter writes: > Just a quick comment on this: Since most framebuffers are write-combining, > and reads from that tend to be ~3 orders of magnitude slower than writes > (at least on the pile of machines I looked at here, there's big > differences, and some special streaming cpu instructio

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-02-03 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
Hi Am 15.01.21 um 09:06 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: Hi Daniel, On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:11 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:56 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:11 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-02-02 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:13:14AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > > Daniel Vetter writes: > > > Just a quick comment on this: Since most framebuffers are write-combining, > > and reads from that tend to be ~3 orders of magnitude slower than writes > > (at least on the pile of machines I looked at h

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-02-02 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 01:55:04PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > > Judging from some of the comments in the code, it looks like you were > one of the original authors of fbcon? I haven't been able to find any > of these sczbot crash reports, and am not sure how fuzz

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-01-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Phillip, On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 8:26 PM Phillip Susi wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > Judging from some of the comments in the code, it looks like you were > one of the original authors of fbcon? I haven't been able to find any Indeed, a long time ago... Before DRM existed. > of t

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-01-23 Thread Phillip Susi
Geert Uytterhoeven writes: Judging from some of the comments in the code, it looks like you were one of the original authors of fbcon? I haven't been able to find any of these sczbot crash reports, and am not sure how fuzzing syscalls would really affect this code ( it's not really handling a b

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-01-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Daniel, On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 5:11 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:56 PM Geert Uytterhoeven > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:11 AM Linus Torvalds > > > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:13 AM Phil

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-01-14 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 4:56 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > CC linux-fbdev > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:11 AM Linus Torvalds > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:13 AM Phillip Susi wrote: > > > > > Could we pause t

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-01-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Daniel, CC linux-fbdev On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:11 AM Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:13 AM Phillip Susi wrote: > > > > Could we pause this madness? Scrollback is still useful. I needed it > > > > today... it was

Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)

2021-01-12 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 12:11 AM Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:13 AM Phillip Susi wrote: > > > > > Could we pause this madness? Scrollback is still useful. I needed it > > > today... it was too small, so command results I was looking for > > > already scrolled away, but... li