On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
>
> Note that this method will produce a split block cursor with EGA, which is
> still supported by vgacon, but possibly not used anymore. Why not use
> this method (scanline_end < scanline_start) for VGA, and the default method
> (moving the cursor out of the screen) for the rest?
I do believe that we can ignore EGA controllers these days.
Or at least accept the fact that anybody who owns an EGA system isn't
actually likely to care about what his screen looks like.
The EGA support was pretty much a joke even when Linux started ;)
Linus
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