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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:07:59 +0100
From:   Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
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  Hi,

> > fbcon could do the same, i.e. render to fbdev in a 60Hz timer instead of
> > doing it synchronously.
> 
> Yeah, and if you use the shadow fb support in drm fbdev helpers,
> that's what you get. Maybe we should just make that the default, since
> that would also greatly simply stuff like modesetting support for
> fbdev.

Yep, that helps of course.  I was thinking more about the chars + attrs
+ font -> framebuffer step in the fbcon rendering pipeline though where
one could do something simliar to save even more cpu cycles.

take care,
  Gerd