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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:47:05 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 2] fbcon: blinking text fix and implementation On Tue 2008-07-01 16:38:07, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Hi all, > I have recently found out that there is a small bug in fbcon handling > the background color. > The forth bit of the background color is the blink property bit, not the > intensity bit, as for the foreground color. > Therefore it shouldn't be included in the background color. > I also wrote a very simple implementation for blinking text in fbcon, > using the flashcursor function to scan the buffer for blinking chars. > Any suggestion or critic is very welcome, but don't be too hard :) I'd prefer to call that 'feature' and leave it alone. Burning cpu power to provide annoying blinking text is at least questionable... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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