From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759022AbYGQSvE (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:51:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758239AbYGQSuk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:40 -0400 Received: from winston.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.75]:37960 "EHLO winston.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757890AbYGQSui (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:38 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 101107 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:50:38 EDT Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:50:35 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Stefano Stabellini cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND] fbcon: simple text blinking implementation In-Reply-To: <487F4E20.6090802@eu.citrix.com> Message-ID: References: <487F4E20.6090802@eu.citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > at the moment blinking is not supported in fbcon but it is supported in > vgacon. > Since userspace applications don't distinguish between the two, they just > assume that the linux terminal is always capable of blinking text. > However implementing blinking in fbcon is not so difficult: this patch > provides a very simple (too simple?) implementation of that. > I am using the flashcursor function to scan the buffer for blinking text. > For the sake of efficiency I added a simple flag mechanism to disable the scan > when I am sure that there are no blinking characters on the screen. Ehrm, there's already blinking support on some platforms? 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