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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND] fbcon: simple text blinking implementation
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> 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?
>

are you sure?
fbcon isn't supposed to be a software implementation?


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