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Hans de Goede committed a8552c7c9b5
console: Fix pre-console flushing via cfb_console being very slow On my A10 OlinuxIno Lime I noticed a huge (5+ seconds) delay coming from console_init_r. This turns out to be caused by the preconsole buffer flushing to the cfb_console. The Lime only has a 16 bit memory bus and that is already heavy used to scan out the 1920x1080 framebuffer. The problem is that print_pre_console_buffer() was printing the buffer once character at a time and the cfb_console code then ends up doing a cache-flush for touched display lines for each character. This commit fixes this by first building a 0 terminated buffer and then printing it in one puts() call, avoiding unnecessary cache flushes. This changes the time for the flush from 5+ seconds to not noticable. The downside of this approach is that the pre-console buffer needs to fit on the stack, this is not that much to ask since we are talking about plain text here. This commit also adjusts the sunxi CONFIG_PRE_CON_BUF_SZ to actually fit on the stack. Sunxi currently is the only user of the pre-console code so no other boards need to be adjusted. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>