Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] More fbdev api changes commited

[Dominik K. <dom...@un...>]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:17:47AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> I just commited some fbcon changes. These chanegs break any current 

How about character attribute handling? Right now the vt emulation handles
this stuff.  That's plain wrong. It should just tell the screen driver
to print character c with bold,underline,blink and green color enabled.
If the backend can't handle that, it should substitute... (Also it would
of course be a mistake of the VTE to issue a color request on a monochrome
display...)

Comments?
  Dominik

PS. As you can see i am back from my short weekend vacation. Did a whole
lot of work on ruby.  CVS commit to come later tonight... (And i did
introduce a bug i can't chase down... ARGH!)

PPS. I think we need to import the whole kernel tree into CVS, at least
for ruby: i am now touching files in include/linux, drivers/char and
will add stuff to Documentation soon.  There is BTW no need to check out
the whole tree: you can tell cvs to make a diff in the repository and
only transfer the diff-file.  Makes it easy for us to automatically create
snapshot patches too. What do you think about this?
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