From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1aPtWh-0003pK-7V for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:02:55 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPtWe-0003op-Ad for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:02:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPtWa-0008Um-9m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:02:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPtWa-0008St-4Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:02:48 -0500 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BC1D8E390; Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.4.32] (vpn1-4-32.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.4.32]) by int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u0VF2h8W016364 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:02:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] menu_entry: Disable cursor during update_screen() To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <1454077618-18986-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <56AC6740.6090008@gmail.com> From: Thomas Huth Message-ID: <56AE2210.20008@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:02:40 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56AC6740.6090008@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.26 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Cc: arvidjaar@gmail.com X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 15:02:53 -0000 Hi, On 30.01.2016 08:33, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > 29.01.2016 17:26, Thomas Huth =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: >> When running grub in a VGA console of a KVM pseries guest on PowerPC, >> you can see the cursor sweeping over the whole line when entering a >> character in editor mode. This is visible because grub always refreshe= s >> the whole line when entering a character in editor mode, and drawing >> characters is quite a slow operation with the firmware used for the >> powerpc pseries guests (SLOF). >> To avoid this ugliness, the cursor should be disabled when refreshing >> the screen contents during update_screen(). >> >=20 > While it looks OK - any reason it is not present in Fedora grub2 GIT? Sorry, I didn't quite got your question ... do you mean the problem can not be seen with the version from Fedora? If so, how did you start QEMU to run the guest? Thomas