Re: [PATCH 0 of 2] fbcon: blinking text fix and implementation

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Jul 09 2008 - 10:47:23 EST


On Tue 2008-07-01 16:38:07, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have recently found out that there is a small bug in fbcon handling
> the background color.
> The forth bit of the background color is the blink property bit, not the
> intensity bit, as for the foreground color.
> Therefore it shouldn't be included in the background color.
> I also wrote a very simple implementation for blinking text in fbcon,
> using the flashcursor function to scan the buffer for blinking chars.
> Any suggestion or critic is very welcome, but don't be too hard :)

I'd prefer to call that 'feature' and leave it alone. Burning cpu
power to provide annoying blinking text is at least questionable...

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