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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
	linux-console@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:53:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWvZnU_p-c98sag8t1BCaBLSqZmiH88sgD2kACbvax0pA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180721213843.wkculy5cdrrbmuij@angband.pl>

Hi Adam,

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> Technically, every console can be made to blink by drawing/clearing affected
> characters a few times per second, but that'd be quite a waste of coding
> time and kernel size.  There's a reason browsers dropped support for <blink>
> and text-decoration:blink.

It's very simple and fast to implement in fbcon for FB_TYPE_PLANES or
FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES and FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-23  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-18  3:01 [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements Adam Borowski
2018-07-18  3:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] vt: drop unused struct vt_struct Adam Borowski
2018-07-18  3:03   ` [PATCH 2/6] vt: add console flag "unblinking" Adam Borowski
2018-07-18  3:03   ` [PATCH 3/6] vt: let \e[100m use bright background if unblinking Adam Borowski
2018-07-18  3:03   ` [PATCH 4/6] vt: change 256-color palette to match all(?) modern terminals Adam Borowski
2018-07-18  3:03   ` [PATCH 5/6] vt: compensate for brightening the 256-color palette Adam Borowski
2018-07-18  3:03   ` [PATCH 6/6] vt: support bright backgrounds for \e[48m if unblinking Adam Borowski
2018-07-19 10:47 ` [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements Alan Cox
2018-07-19 14:28   ` Adam Borowski
2018-07-19 14:34     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-21  7:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-21 21:38   ` Adam Borowski
2018-07-23  8:53     ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2018-07-23 10:41       ` Adam Borowski
2018-07-23 11:07         ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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