From b434a680a29424856e0f40199daa9f65963c7cb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Garrett Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:57:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] vgacon: Add support for setting the default cursor state Pass the vga cursor state to the vt layer, ensuring that we don't hide the cursor when the bootloader has deliberately disabled it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett LKML-Reference: <1258142222-16092-3-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c index 564643edb3c1..cc4bbbe44aca 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c @@ -586,7 +586,10 @@ static void vgacon_init(struct vc_data *c, int init) if (!vgacon_uni_pagedir[0] && p) con_set_default_unimap(c); - hide_boot_cursor(screen_info.flags & VIDEO_FLAGS_NOCURSOR); + /* Only set the default if the user didn't deliberately override it */ + if (global_cursor_default == -1) + global_cursor_default = + !(screen_info.flags & VIDEO_FLAGS_NOCURSOR); } static void vgacon_deinit(struct vc_data *c) -- 2.20.1