linux-toradex.git/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c, branch v2.6.19.2

[PATCH] fbcon: Use persistent allocation for cursor blinking

2006-10-03T15:04:10+00:00

Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.  This
patch turns that into a single allocation.

This allocation was the most frequent kmalloc I saw on my test box.

[adaplas]
Per Alan's suggestion, move global variables to fbcon's private structure.
This would also avoid resource leaks when fbcon is unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] vt: Remove VT-specific declarations and definitions from tty.h

2006-07-10T20:24:16+00:00

MAX_NR_CONSOLES, fg_console, want_console and last_console are more of a
function of the VT layer than the TTY one.  Moving these to vt.h and vt_kern.h
allows all of the framebuffer and VT console drivers to remove their
dependency on tty.h.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build]
Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl 
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] drivers/video/: possible cleanups

2006-01-10T16:01:56+00:00

This patch contains the possible cleanups including the following:
- every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
  it's global functions
- make needlessly global functions static
- kyro/STG4000Interface.h: #include video/kyro.h and linux/pci.h
  instead of a manual "struct pci_dev"
- i810_main.{c,h}: prototypes for static functions belong to the
  C file

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fbcon/fbdev: Move softcursor out of fbdev to fbcon

2005-11-07T15:53:50+00:00

According to Jon Smirl, filling in the field fb_cursor with soft_cursor for
drivers that do not support hardware cursors is redundant.  The soft_cursor
function is usable by all drivers because it is just a wrapper around
fb_imageblit.  And because soft_cursor is an fbcon-specific hook, the file is
moved to the console directory.

Thus, drivers that do not support hardware cursors can leave the fb_cursor
field blank.  For drivers that do, they can fill up this field with their own
version.

The end result is a smaller code size.  And if the framebuffer console is not
loaded, module/kernel size is also reduced because the soft_cursor module will
also not be loaded.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds