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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: monochrome display fix.
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, James Simmons wrote:
> >
> > [CONSOLE] Don't let a monochrome display stomp all over the console color
> > values.
>
> Why is this ugly patch required? If something can't do color, why does it
> care about "color" in the first place?

Because it stores some text attributes in that place.

> We've never needed this patch
> before, it looks like something broke somewhere _else_ that causes this
> to be relevant.

It was always broken. This went unnoticed, apparently nobody tried to use
a kernel which supports mono and colour framebuffers at the same time.


Thiemo
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