Re: [PATCH] menu_entry: Disable cursor during update_screen()

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

31.01.2016 18:02, Thomas Huth пишет:
>  Hi,
> 
> On 30.01.2016 08:33, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>> 29.01.2016 17:26, Thomas Huth пишет:
>>> 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 refreshes
>>> 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().
>>>
>>
>> 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?
> 

I usually expect that patches from distributions initially appear in
distribution packages, so I was surprised that I could not see it in
Fedora package.