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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. |