Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:40:35 +0100 | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: monochrome display fix. | From | Thiemo Seufer <> |
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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.
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