Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] fbcon: simple text blinking implementation
From: Stefano Stabellini <hidden>
Date: 2008-08-08 09:52:57
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Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Stefano Stabellini wrote:quoted
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?
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