Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: Console rotation problems

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Nov 24 2005 - 04:43:28 EST


On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Remove bogus usage of test/set_bit() from fbcon rotation code and just
> > manipulate the bits directly. This fixes an oops on powerpc among others
> > and should be faster. Seems to work fine on the G5 here.
>
> Thanks, I reached a point when my head became muddled with bit
> manipulations, so I used arch-specific bitops but complete forgot
> that they were atomic :-)

I haven't really looked at the rotation code, but I guess it can be optimized a
lot by using similar techniques like c2p (chunky-to-planar) conversions.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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