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From: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 15:58:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fbcon: add fbcon=margin:<color> command line option
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To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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On 08/23/2017 10:56 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 

>>>
>>> Given the standard console palette contains 16 colors, why limit this to
>>> the first 8 colors, and not 0 to 15?
>>
>> Good question. I think in some of my previous attempts there was a 0x7
>> mask involved somewhere and this is a carryover from that. But, after
>> having looked at this again, I don't see a reason for limiting to 7.
> 
> Could you please prepare the incremental patch raising the number of colors
> possible to use?

Yes, I will do this.