From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser.
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:17:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601111417.19234.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C502AA.1040200@gmail.com>
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:05, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:24, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> >
> >> In the VGA console, all buffers, including scrollback is in video RAM, but
> >> the size is fixed and is very small.
> >
> > I wonder if that can be fixed.
>
> It can be done, but it will affect VGA console performance.
By how much? As long as it still scrolls reasonably fast it would be ok for me.
>
> >
> >> With the framebuffer console, you can increase the size of the scrollback
> >> buffer with the boot option:
> >>
> >> fbcon=scrollback:<n> (default is 32K)
> >
> > On x86-64 vesafb is unusable slow because it does CPU scrolling cause
> > it can't use the vesa BIOS - and the others don't work everywhere. So I don't
> > think fbcon is an usable replacement.
>
> How about vga16fb + fbcon? If scrolling is slow in vga16fb, fbset -vyres 800 should
> increase performance significantly.
I can try it.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 4:52 oops pauser Dave Jones
2006-01-05 6:10 ` oops pauser. / boot_delayer Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-05 7:30 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-05 8:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 1:28 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 5:36 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 7:00 ` David Lang
2006-01-08 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-08 19:30 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-08 23:08 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-08 23:39 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-06 7:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 8:33 ` David Lang
2006-01-05 9:25 ` Grant Coady
2006-01-05 15:31 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-05 15:38 ` Avishay Traeger
2006-01-05 19:15 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-05 11:11 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-07 21:44 ` Kurtis D. Rader
2006-01-07 21:48 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-07 22:00 ` Kurtis D. Rader
2006-01-08 23:29 ` David Lang
2006-01-07 22:27 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-05 8:15 ` oops pauser Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 10:33 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 11:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 12:05 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-05 15:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-05 13:46 ` Kurt Wall
2006-01-06 1:24 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 1:41 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-08 13:38 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-08 13:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-08 19:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-09 1:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-08 19:40 ` Grant Coady
2006-01-09 1:45 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-09 16:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-09 16:25 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-09 16:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-05 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-05 20:52 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 13:31 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 20:33 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 15:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 19:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 22:48 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 13:58 ` Avishay Traeger
2006-01-05 20:54 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 0:19 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-06 1:12 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-06 1:35 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-06 2:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-05 14:39 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-01-09 18:43 ` Console debugging wishlist was: " Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 20:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 20:29 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-10 20:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 22:54 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-10 20:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 20:45 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 21:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 21:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 21:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-11 12:24 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 12:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 13:05 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 13:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-11 13:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 13:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 18:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
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[not found] ` <5tagc-6AZ-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-15 16:48 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-01-15 17:13 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-15 20:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
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