From afa9b649aa699297258dbb67aaae651c9ad4245f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:08:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512
character font
Adjust and honor the vc_scrl_erase_char for 256 and 512 character fonts.
It fixes the issue with disappearing cursor during scrolling
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11258). The issue was
reported and tracked by Peter Hanzel.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Peter Hanzel <hanzelpeter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index 33859934a8e4..c6299e8a041d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h,
c = vc->vc_video_erase_char;
vc->vc_video_erase_char =
((c & 0xfe00) >> 1) | (c & 0xff);
- c = vc->vc_def_color;
+ c = vc->vc_scrl_erase_char;
vc->vc_scrl_erase_char =
((c & 0xFE00) >> 1) | (c & 0xFF);
vc->vc_attr >>= 1;
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ static int fbcon_do_set_font(struct vc_data *vc, int w, int h,
if (vc->vc_can_do_color) {
vc->vc_video_erase_char =
((c & 0xff00) << 1) | (c & 0xff);
- c = vc->vc_def_color;
+ c = vc->vc_scrl_erase_char;
vc->vc_scrl_erase_char =
((c & 0xFF00) << 1) | (c & 0xFF);
vc->vc_attr <<= 1;
--
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