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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2021-11-05 04:50:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2021-11-05 04:50:15 +0100 |
| commit | 5275a99e35e5a1d1f68038b0560d0e7eaf624e86 (patch) | |
| tree | 36109ac35e451d3b710a85ab57b3e8be01730bea /Documentation/gpu | |
| parent | Merge tag 'amd-drm-next-5.16-2021-10-29' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/ag... (diff) | |
| parent | fbdev: Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration, part 1 (from TODO list) (diff) | |
| download | linux-5275a99e35e5a1d1f68038b0560d0e7eaf624e86.tar.xz linux-5275a99e35e5a1d1f68038b0560d0e7eaf624e86.zip | |
Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2021-10-14' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next
drm-misc-next for 5.16:
UAPI Changes:
Cross-subsystem Changes:
Core Changes:
- fbdev: Fix double-free, Remove unused scrolling acceleration
- locking: improve logging for contented locks without backoff
- dma-buf: Add dma_resv_for_each_fence iterator, and conversion of
users
Driver Changes:
- nouveau: Various code style improvements
- bridge: HPD improvements for lt9611uxc, eDP aux-bus support for
ps8640, lvds-codec data-mapping selection support
- panels: Vivax TPC-9150, Innolux G070Y2-T02, LOGIC Technologies
LTTD800480070-L2RT, Sharp LS060T1SX01,
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
From: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211014120452.2wicnt6hobu3kbwb@gilmour
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/gpu')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/todo.rst | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst index 6613543955e9..60d1d7ee0719 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/todo.rst @@ -314,16 +314,19 @@ Level: Advanced Garbage collect fbdev scrolling acceleration -------------------------------------------- -Scroll acceleration is disabled in fbcon by hard-wiring p->scrollmode = -SCROLL_REDRAW. There's a ton of code this will allow us to remove: +Scroll acceleration has been disabled in fbcon. Now it works as the old +SCROLL_REDRAW mode. A ton of code was removed in fbcon.c and the hook bmove was +removed from fbcon_ops. +Remaining tasks: -- lots of code in fbcon.c - -- a bunch of the hooks in fbcon_ops, maybe the remaining hooks could be called +- a bunch of the hooks in fbcon_ops could be removed or simplified by calling directly instead of the function table (with a switch on p->rotate) - fb_copyarea is unused after this, and can be deleted from all drivers +- after that, fb_copyarea can be deleted from fb_ops in include/linux/fb.h as + well as cfb_copyarea + Note that not all acceleration code can be deleted, since clearing and cursor support is still accelerated, which might be good candidates for further deletion projects. |