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From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: fbdev hardware cursor support
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 15:33:34 -0400
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Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>, James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>

On 6/6/05, James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org> wrote:
> Some time ago we had userland cursor support but it was removed :-( Now
> that we have sysfs it could make a come back. The software cursor code
> doesn't behave proprely from userland. It was design to work with the
> console system only.

I have software cursors going in Xegl now so I am ok for the moment.
At some point we need to resurrect the hardware cursor support in
fbdev.

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Jon Smirl
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