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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:16 +0100 From: Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de> To: David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:06:58PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Daniel Mack wrote: > > "A couple of seconds" is still too much. We don't want to give the > > impression of a terminal at all. The whole application starting > > afterwards has no cursor either. > > Or even half a second. Devices regularly flash and squiggle on startup, > often as a diagnostic. Did you look at initialising your display > controller in graphics mode, or with the cursor off? It's a dumb framebuffer device, fbcon handles the rest. From the moment when the framebuffer is initalized until the userspace comes up, it takes ~5 secs, and at this time, we don't want to see the cursor. -- 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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