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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements
Hi Adam,

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> Technically, every console can be made to blink by drawing/clearing affected
> characters a few times per second, but that'd be quite a waste of coding
> time and kernel size. There's a reason browsers dropped support for <blink>
> and text-decoration:blink.

It's very simple and fast to implement in fbcon for FB_TYPE_PLANES or
FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES and FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR ;-)

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

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