linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWvZnU_p-c98sag8t1BCaBLSqZmiH88sgD2kACbvax0pA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:53:29 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        linux-console@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements

Hi Adam,

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl> wrote:
> Technically, every console can be made to blink by drawing/clearing affected
> characters a few times per second, but that'd be quite a waste of coding
> time and kernel size.  There's a reason browsers dropped support for <blink>
> and text-decoration:blink.

It's very simple and fast to implement in fbcon for FB_TYPE_PLANES or
FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES and FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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