On Mon, 14 Oct, at 09:57:26AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 10/12/2013 10:49 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > >>>> +static void early_efi_write_char(void *dst, char c, int h) > > >>>> +{ > > >>>> + const u8 *src; > > >>>> + u32 fgcolor = 0xaaaaaa; > > >>> > > >>> That's RGB grey, right? Why not 0xffffff for a very visible white? > > >> > > >> The VGA earlyprintk code uses the equivalent grey, AFAIK, which is why I > > >> picked this value. > > > > > > The VGA code should be changed to white too I suspect ;-) > > > > > > > For compatibility with the classical text console we use light grey as > > the default color and a double-stroked font (which was necessary on the > > CGA display since it didn't have enough bandwidth to handle > > single-stroked fonts well). The problem with changing that to white is > > that you end up with a mismatch between the earlyprintk console and the > > "real" console, *or* we change the behavior of everyone's consoles... > > Btw., I have no problem at all with making the early console look separate > and making it clear when we switch to the 'real' console. > > earlyprintk is a debug method, and more information can only be good. Have we reached a consensus here? I've no strong opinion either way on the colour of the text. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html