matroxfb: set FBINFO_READS_FAST
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:38:11 +0000 (14:38 -0500)
committerTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:01:04 +0000 (15:01 +0200)
Set FBINFO_READS_FAST so that the console code uses scrolling instead of
rewriting. This improves scrolling speed.

A time to do ls -la /usr/bin:
original patched
32bpp 5.4 3.6
24bpp 5.1 3.0
16bpp 4.9 2.5
8bpp 4.9 2.0

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_base.c

index 87c64ff..7116c53 100644 (file)
@@ -1773,7 +1773,8 @@ static int initMatrox2(struct matrox_fb_info *minfo, struct board *b)
                                      FBINFO_HWACCEL_FILLRECT |  /* And fillrect */
                                      FBINFO_HWACCEL_IMAGEBLIT | /* And imageblit */
                                      FBINFO_HWACCEL_XPAN |      /* And we support both horizontal */
-                                     FBINFO_HWACCEL_YPAN;       /* And vertical panning */
+                                     FBINFO_HWACCEL_YPAN |      /* And vertical panning */
+                                     FBINFO_READS_FAST;
        minfo->video.len_usable &= PAGE_MASK;
        fb_alloc_cmap(&minfo->fbcon.cmap, 256, 1);