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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:34:28 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements
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To: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
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Hi Adam,

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:29 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> And vgacon has code that looks like it can do CGA and MDA (redundant with
> mdacon?), either of which I haven't used in... quite a while.  Might be
> tricky getting access to such hardware to test...

Mdacon is meant to be used next to vgacon, for systems with both color and
monochrome graphics adapters.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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

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