From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: monochrome display fix.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:40:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127074035.GF1315@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401261446560.2313@home.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > [CONSOLE] Don't let a monochrome display stomp all over the console color
> > values.
>
> Why is this ugly patch required? If something can't do color, why does it
> care about "color" in the first place?
Because it stores some text attributes in that place.
> We've never needed this patch
> before, it looks like something broke somewhere _else_ that causes this
> to be relevant.
It was always broken. This went unnoticed, apparently nobody tried to use
a kernel which supports mono and colour framebuffers at the same time.
Thiemo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-27 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-26 22:13 James Simmons
2004-01-26 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-27 7:40 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2004-01-27 10:19 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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