From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:53:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements Message-Id: List-Id: References: <20180718030152.kdq53mwpdfusvwl5@angband.pl> <20180721074319.GA30454@kroah.com> <20180721213843.wkculy5cdrrbmuij@angband.pl> In-Reply-To: <20180721213843.wkculy5cdrrbmuij@angband.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Adam Borowski Cc: Greg KH , Jiri Slaby , linux-console@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Linux Fbdev development list , Linux Kernel Mailing List Hi Adam, On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM Adam Borowski 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 > 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