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Andy Shevchenko b418d660bb efi/earlycon: Remap entire framebuffer after page initialization
When commit:

  69c1f396f2 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")

moved the x86 specific EFI earlyprintk implementation to a shared location,
it also tweaked the behaviour. In particular, it dropped a trick with full
framebuffer remapping after page initialization, leading to two regressions:

  1) very slow scrolling after page initialization,
  2) kernel hang when the 'keep_bootcon' command line argument is passed.

Putting the tweak back fixes #2 and mitigates #1, i.e., it limits the slow
behavior to the early boot stages, presumably due to eliminating heavy
map()/unmap() operations per each pixel line on the screen.

 [ ardb: ensure efifb is unmapped again unless keep_bootcon is in effect. ]
 [ mingo: speling fixes. ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Cc: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 69c1f396f2 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191206165542.31469-7-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-12-08 12:42:19 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.