According to Jon Smirl, filling in the field fb_cursor with soft_cursor for
drivers that do not support hardware cursors is redundant. The soft_cursor
function is usable by all drivers because it is just a wrapper around
fb_imageblit. And because soft_cursor is an fbcon-specific hook, the file is
moved to the console directory.
Thus, drivers that do not support hardware cursors can leave the fb_cursor
field blank. For drivers that do, they can fill up this field with their own
version.
The end result is a smaller code size. And if the framebuffer console is not
loaded, module/kernel size is also reduced because the soft_cursor module will
also not be loaded.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The attached patch fixes the p9100 framebuffer so that text is viewable
(not black on black, like it was before the patch). The linux logo
displays for a very short period of time, then is replaced by a grey
box. This leads me to believe that this framebuffer would have problems
in X, but since there hasn't been a weitek driver for X in several
millennia, this isn't something that I can confirm or deny.
But this patch does get color console working on my SPARCbook 3TX.
Signed-off-by: Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Antonino A. Daplas
Tom 'spot' Callaway
Linus Torvalds