Synced with 2.4.3

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

Hi folks!!

  I updated again 2.4.3. Several changes have been going. I have been
slowly adding the needed funcitonality into fbcon. I need to clean up the
cursor handling code yet. Thanks to a few people I have a few ideas on how
to deal with more than one VGA card but only on vgacon issue. Thank you. I
also have some ideas about handling the dreaded console interrupt problem
based on Morton's work. Sorry I haven't got vesafb working yet.  Anyone
willing to give it a try. The big one to get working is cfbimgblt.  It is
not pretty code but it is meant to be as fast as possible. I have tested
cfbfillrect and cfbcopyarea and then worked fine.

MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that
renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2. A disease.

James Simmons  [jsi...@li...]               ____/|
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