Anyone who has a YeeLoong Laptop will find the graphics performance is 
unacceptable. Even just run dmesg, the output will take a lot of time.

In fact, there is a built-in 2D acceleration in SM712, the video chip of 
YeeLoong. And the driver which supports the acceleration, appeared in the 
early-days pull request of YeeLoong to the Linux Kernel.

But, later on, a crucial bug had been found.

> it may make the whole system hang when scrolling the screen, for example, 
if we
> copy some files from another machines to yeeloong via scp and the screen
> output is enabled, the whole system may hang.

So, developers had to remove the acceleration-related code. Then, we got 
poor performance on the text-mode framebuffer - until today. If we can fix 
up the buggy driver, the output will become 10x faster at least.

I just a user of YeeLoong, who don't have enough knowledge to work with 
that driver. And I noticed the issue. I'm sending the email to provided the 
information for anybody interest in hacking and debugging the driver for 
the community.

Any discussion are welcomed.

Cheers,
Tom Li

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