[PATCH 3/3] glamo_fb: Implement screen blanking

Harald Welte laforge at openmoko.org
Sat Oct 11 11:23:56 CEST 2008


On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:20:53AM +0200, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" wrote:
> Harald Welte wrote:
> > * glamo kernel hardware scrolling+cursor support
> 
> Sorry, what do you exactly mean for hardware scrolling support (i.e.
> which is the user gain)?

you get a hardware-accelerated scrolling kernel console, e.g during non-quiet
startup.  It hurts my eyes every time I have to see the slow software-based
unaccelerated glamo framebuffer scrolling on a kernel boot.

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- Harald Welte <laforge at openmoko.org>          	        http://openmoko.org/
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