Re: [PATCH 0/6] vt: no blinking on console, 256/24-bit color improvements

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jul 19 2018 - 10:34:44 EST


Hi Adam,

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 4:29 PM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And vgacon has code that looks like it can do CGA and MDA (redundant with
> mdacon?), either of which I haven't used in... quite a while. Might be
> tricky getting access to such hardware to test...

Mdacon is meant to be used next to vgacon, for systems with both color and
monochrome graphics adapters.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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