The patch titled
fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512 character font
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fbcon-prevent-cursor-disappearance-after-switching-to-512-character-font.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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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
linux-next.patch
rtc-m48t59-reduce-structure-m48t59_private.patch
rtc-m48t59-add-support-for-m48t02-and-m48t59-chips-2nd-rev.patch
fb-convert-lock-unlock_kernel-into-local-fb-mutex.patch
neofb-reduce-panning-function.patch
fbdev-kconfig-update.patch
fbdev-kconfig-update-fix.patch
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