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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Fbdev development list
	<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 23:11:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jezmw9ug7j.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1112923186.9567.349.camel@gaston> (Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of "Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:19:46 +1000")

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 01:58 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Yes, that's very extreme, I suspect somebody is banging on set_par or
>> > something like that.
>> 
>> fb_setcolreg is it.
>
> Ok, what about that patch:
>
> ---
>
> This patch adds to the fbdev interface a set_cmap callback that allow
> the driver to "batch" palette changes. This is useful for drivers like
> radeonfb which might require lenghtly workarounds on palette accesses,
> thus allowing to factor out those workarounds efficiently.

This makes it better. But there is still a delay of half a second, and
there is an annoying flicker when switching from X to the console.

Andreas.

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2005-04-08  1:19                   ` [PATCH] radeonfb: (#2) Implement proper workarounds for PLL accesses Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-08 21:11                     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2005-04-09  0:03                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-09 16:24                         ` Andreas Schwab
2005-04-09 23:33                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-04-10 10:05                             ` Moritz Muehlenhoff
2005-04-10 22:45                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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