From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932405AbdHWP6O (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:58:14 -0400 Received: from vern.gendns.com ([206.190.152.46]:53370 "EHLO vern.gendns.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932103AbdHWP6L (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:58:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fbcon: add fbcon=margin: command line option To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Fbdev development list , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <1501605357-30815-1-git-send-email-david@lechnology.com> <0f404f59-f494-bd33-9a9a-f9b07a0dd7ee@lechnology.com> <1712803.5baJPN1EnC@amdc3058> From: David Lechner Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:58:15 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1712803.5baJPN1EnC@amdc3058> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - vern.gendns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - lechnology.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: vern.gendns.com: authenticated_id: davidmain+lechnology.com/only user confirmed/virtual account not confirmed X-Authenticated-Sender: vern.gendns.com: davidmain@lechnology.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.