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From: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] udlfb: Add module option to do without shadow framebuffer
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:59:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E5503A7.9070707@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313958862-5640-7-git-send-email-bernie@plugable.com>

On 08/21/2011 08:34 PM, bernie@plugable.com wrote:
> From: Stuart Hopkins <stuart@linux-depot.com>
> 
> By default, udlfb allocates a 2nd buffer to shadow what's across
> the bus on the USB device.  It can operate without this shadow,
> but then it cannot tell which pixels have changed, and must send all.
> 
> Saves host memory, but worsens the USB 2.0 bus bottleneck.
> 
> This option allows users in very low memory situations (e.g.
> bifferboard) to optionally turn off this shadow framebuffer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stuart Hopkins <stuart@linux-depot.com>

The order of the Signed-offs looks a bit strange here so I reordered them.

I applied the ?/6 series.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat

      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-24 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-21 20:34 [PATCH 4/6] udlfb: Add module option to do without shadow framebuffer bernie
2011-08-24 13:59 ` Florian Tobias Schandinat [this message]

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