fbcon: prevent cursor disappearance after switching to 512 character font
Adjust and honor the vc_scrl_erase_char for 256 and 512 character fonts.
It fixes the issue with disappearing cursor during scrolling
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11258). The issue was
reported and tracked by Peter Hanzel.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Reported-by: Peter Hanzel <hanzelpeter@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index 3385993..c6299e8 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -2518,7 +2518,7 @@
c = vc->vc_video_erase_char;
vc->vc_video_erase_char =
((c & 0xfe00) >> 1) | (c & 0xff);
- c = vc->vc_def_color;
+ c = vc->vc_scrl_erase_char;
vc->vc_scrl_erase_char =
((c & 0xFE00) >> 1) | (c & 0xFF);
vc->vc_attr >>= 1;
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@
if (vc->vc_can_do_color) {
vc->vc_video_erase_char =
((c & 0xff00) << 1) | (c & 0xff);
- c = vc->vc_def_color;
+ c = vc->vc_scrl_erase_char;
vc->vc_scrl_erase_char =
((c & 0xFF00) << 1) | (c & 0xFF);
vc->vc_attr <<= 1;
