Re: fbdev cursor management

2001-03-12 Thread James Simmons
>Guys, > >I've been taking a look at the cursor flashing code, >from the point of view of how it's affected by the >recent enabling of interrupts across the console code. I see the problems. I just pursposed a new cursor api soe we can have a clean fbdev to fbcon abstraction. Also we really need

fbdev cursor management

2001-03-11 Thread Andrew Morton
Guys, I've been taking a look at the cursor flashing code, from the point of view of how it's affected by the recent enabling of interrupts across the console code. Pretty much all of the cursor-blink stuff is racy, and has always been racy on SMP. Enabling the interrupts has made it racy on UP