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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-13 22:18:24 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-12-13 22:18:24 +0300
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Merge tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here's the tty/serial patchset for 4.10-rc1. It's been a quiet kernel cycle for this subsystem, just a small number of changes. A few new serial drivers, and some cleanups to the old vgacon logic, and other minor serial driver changes as well. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (54 commits) serial: 8250_mid fix calltrace when hotplug 8250 serial controller console: Move userspace I/O out of console_lock to fix lockdep warning tty: nozomi: avoid sprintf buffer overflow serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery serial: core: don't check port twice in a row mxs-auart: count FIFO overrun errors serial: 8250_dw: Add support for IrDA SIR mode serial: 8250: Expose set_ldisc function serial: 8250: Add IrDA to UART capabilities serial: 8250_dma: power off device after TX is done serial: 8250_port: export serial8250_rpm_{get|put}_tx() serial: sunsu: Free memory when probe fails serial: sunhv: Free memory when remove() is called vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name tty: typo in comments in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c tty: amba-pl011: Add earlycon support for SBSA UART tty: nozomi: use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants tty: serial: Make the STM32 serial port depend on it's arch serial: ifx6x60: Free memory when probe fails serial: ioc4_serial: Free memory when kzalloc fails during probe ...
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@@ -4,15 +4,13 @@ Software cursor for VGA
by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
-Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally, you
-can set the size of hardware cursor (and also work around some ugly bugs in
-those miserable Trident cards [#f1]_. You can now play a few new tricks:
-you can make your cursor look
-
-like a non-blinking red block, make it inverse background of the character it's
-over or to highlight that character and still choose whether the original
-hardware cursor should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have
-never thought of.
+Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally,
+you can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new
+tricks: you can make your cursor look like a non-blinking red block,
+make it inverse background of the character it's over or to highlight
+that character and still choose whether the original hardware cursor
+should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have never
+thought of.
The cursor appearance is controlled by a ``<ESC>[?1;2;3c`` escape sequence
where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them,
@@ -48,8 +46,6 @@ third parameter
Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a
bit by including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask.
-.. [#f1] see ``#define TRIDENT_GLITCH`` in ``drivers/video/vgacon.c``.
-
Examples
--------