2016-01-29 17:26, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> When running grub in a VGA console of a KVM pseries guest on PowerPC,
>> you can see the cursor sweeping over the whole line when entering a
>> character in editor mode. This is visible because grub always refreshes
>> the whole line when entering a character in editor mode, and drawing
>> characters is quite a slow operation with the firmware used for the
>> powerpc pseries guests (SLOF).
>> To avoid this ugliness, the cursor should be disabled when refreshing
>> the screen contents during update_screen().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> grub-core/normal/menu_entry.c | 4 ++++
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/grub-core/normal/menu_entry.c b/grub-core/normal/menu_entry.c
>> index 62c7e16..68359eb 100644
>> --- a/grub-core/normal/menu_entry.c
>> +++ b/grub-core/normal/menu_entry.c
>> @@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ update_screen (struct screen *screen, struct
>> per_term_screen *term_screen,
>> mode = ALL_LINES;
>> }
>>
>> + grub_term_setcursor (term_screen->term, 0);
>> +
>> if (mode != NO_LINE)
>> {
>> /* Draw lines. This code is tricky, because this must calculate
>> logical
>> @@ -357,6 +359,8 @@ update_screen (struct screen *screen, struct
>> per_term_screen *term_screen,
>>
>> }
>>
>> + grub_term_setcursor (term_screen->term, 1);
>> +
>> grub_term_refresh (term_screen->term);
>> }
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