the following patch was just integrated into master: commit e9808b145f592db1cf9daaaad6ac42982f13f218 Author: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Date: Thu Jun 30 22:34:57 2016 -0700
cbgfx: Use memset() for faster screen clearing if possible
cbgfx currently makes a separate function call (recomputing some values) for every single pixel it draws. While we mostly don't care that much about display speed, this can become an issue if you're trying to paint the whole screen white on a lowly-clocked Cortex-A53. As a simple solution for these extreme cases, we can build a fast path into clear_screen() that just memset()s the whole framebuffer if the color and pixel format allow it.
BUG=chrome-os-partner:54416 TEST=Screen drawing speed on Kevin visibly improves (from 2.5s to 3ms).
Change-Id: I22f032afbb86b96fa5a0cbbdce8526a905c67b58 Signed-off-by: Julius Werner jwerner@chromium.org Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/15524 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nojiri dnojiri@chromium.org Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org
See https://review.coreboot.org/15524 for details.
-gerrit