From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 2] fbcon: blinking text fix and implementation
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709144704.GA11006@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486A4F5F.7030506@eu.citrix.com>
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...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-09 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-01 15:38 [PATCH 0 of 2] fbcon: blinking text fix and implementation Stefano Stabellini
2008-07-09 14:47 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-07-09 15:22 ` Stefano Stabellini
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