From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:39:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091110123916.GX14091@buzzloop.caiaq.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF95E6A.3030103@davidnewall.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-10 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-05 9:17 [PATCH] fbcon: make cursor display conditional Daniel Mack
2009-11-06 8:16 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-06 14:39 ` Andrea Righi
2009-11-06 16:45 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 8:35 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:10 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 9:15 ` [PATCH] vt: make the default cursor shape configurable Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 9:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 11:26 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 11:46 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-09 12:21 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-09 14:50 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 17:58 ` David Newall
2009-11-09 18:07 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-09 22:09 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:05 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:30 ` Daniel Mack
2009-11-10 12:36 ` David Newall
2009-11-10 12:39 ` Daniel Mack [this message]
2009-11-10 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-10 23:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-11 6:56 ` Clemens Ladisch
2009-11-11 7:54 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-12 22:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 7:28 ` Clemens Ladisch
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