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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:53:29 +0200
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Hi Adam,

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> Technically, every console can be made to blink by drawing/clearing affected
> characters a few times per second, but that'd be quite a waste of coding
> time and kernel size.  There's a reason browsers dropped support for <blink>
> and text-decoration:blink.

It's very simple and fast to implement in fbcon for FB_TYPE_PLANES or
FB_TYPE_INTERLEAVED_PLANES and FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds