Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753415AbXFSN4l (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:56:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751438AbXFSN4e (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:56:34 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:55664 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751414AbXFSN4d (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:56:33 -0400 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes To: Egmont Koblinger , Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Jan Engelhardt , Alan Cox , Behdad Esfahbod , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:54:52 +0200 References: <8aT6Q-3iM-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <8xLa7-25v-5@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/5i/GSyEyJS5pMecahng4hbVybMXTzigDTJ42 ou/JD+q6X02Ked2YGHOnJ2Di3OGd9RvPki3s0itWLzlrWYCABG F1xPiZQoW6Da96wWvhIJQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 959 Lines: 15 Egmont Koblinger wrote: > 2. My patch introduced "question mark with inverted color attributes" as a > last resort fallback glyph. Though it perfectly works on VGA console, on > framebuffer you may end up with question marks that are highlighed but > shouldn't be, and normal characters that are accidentally highlighed. > This is caused by missing FLUSHes when changing the color attribute. Does the FLUSH DTRT by design, or does it just shrink and hide the original race? And why wasn't VGA affected, too? -- Backups? We doan NEED no steenking baX%^~,VbKx NO CARRIER Fri?, Spammer: fc6TtrpBa@6e.7eggert.dyndns.org hKipagwey2@mhl7jy.7eggert.dyndns.org B@d.7eggert.dyndns.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/