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@@ -162,11 +162,15 @@ Single Rust crate (`x86_64-unknown-uefi` target).  Module breakdown:
 
 ## Known issues / perf notes
 
-- **Scroll is slow under QEMU without KVM**: each scroll shifts the whole
-  framebuffer up (~3 MB copy at 1280×800) with TCG-emulated stores.
-  Deferred optimisation: ring-buffer rows / deferred pan so scrolling
-  never touches the whole framebuffer.  The vt's cell grid already avoids
-  re-rasterising on scroll (only the exposed bottom row is blitted).
+- **Scroll cost** — scrolling still shifts the whole framebuffer (a
+  ~3-8 MB pixel copy per row), but a RAM backbuffer (`gop::SHADOW`)
+  makes it fast on real hardware: every raster write goes to the shadow
+  too, and scrolling is a cached shadow memcpy + one write-only push to
+  the display.  The display is never *read* — that was the killer, since
+  real-hardware GOP framebuffers are uncacheable/write-combining and
+  uncached reads cost a bus round-trip per cache line.  Still on the
+  someday list: a pan-based ring so scrolling never touches the whole
+  framebuffer at all.
 - **Editor redraw** re-blits changed cells per keystroke (fine at 1280×800);
   the "optimize drawing someday" item.
 - **ramfs only**: edited files live in memory, lost on reboot until disk