The patch titled
fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512 character font
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fbcon-prevent-cursor-disappearance-after-switching-to-512-character-font.patch
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Subject: fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512 character font
From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx>
Adjust and honor the vc_scrl_erase_char for 256 and 512 character fonts.
It fixes the issue with disappearing cursor during scrolling
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11258). The issue was
reported and tracked by Peter Hanzel.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx>
Reported-by: Peter Hanzel <hanzelpeter@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~fbcon-prevent-cursor-disappearance-after-switching-to-512-character-font drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c~fbcon-prevent-cursor-disappearance-after-switching-to-512-character-font
+++ a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_d
c = vc->vc_video_erase_char;
vc->vc_video_erase_char =
((c & 0xfe00) >> 1) | (c & 0xff);
- c = vc->vc_def_color;
+ c = vc->vc_scrl_erase_char;
vc->vc_scrl_erase_char =
((c & 0xFE00) >> 1) | (c & 0xFF);
vc->vc_attr >>= 1;
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_d
if (vc->vc_can_do_color) {
vc->vc_video_erase_char =
((c & 0xff00) << 1) | (c & 0xff);
- c = vc->vc_def_color;
+ c = vc->vc_scrl_erase_char;
vc->vc_scrl_erase_char =
((c & 0xFF00) << 1) | (c & 0xFF);
vc->vc_attr <<= 1;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from krzysztof.h1@xxxxx are
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matrox-maven-fix-a-broken-error-path.patch
matroxfb-i2c-structure-templates-clean-up.patch
matrox-maven-convert-to-a-new-style-i2c-driver.patch
atmel_lcdfb-set-ypanstep-to-1-and-enable-y-panning-on-at91.patch
atmel_lcdfb-add-board-parameter-specify-framebuffer-memory-size.patch
fbcon-prevent-cursor-disappearance-after-switching-to-512-character-font.patch
linux-next.patch
rtc-m48t59-reduce-structure-m48t59_private.patch
x86-fdiv-bug-detection-fix.patch
fb-convert-lock-unlock_kernel-into-local-fb-mutex.patch
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