Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev hardware cursor support

[James S. <jsi...@ww...>]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Jon Smirl wrote:

> What is the status of fbdev hardware cursor support? I see the ioctl
> is disabled in the driver.
> 
> If a driver is using the softcursor support would the ioctl control that cursor?
> Does softcursor work in a bitmap graphics mode?
> 
> The EGL based 

Some time ago we had userland cursor support but it was removed :-( Now 
that we have sysfs it could make a come back. The software cursor code 
doesn't behave proprely from userlane. It was design to work with the 
console system only.