[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/2] Display color fixes

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 23:48:49 CEST 2017


On 20/04/17 22:43, Programmingkid wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2017, at 5:25 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
>> Here are a couple of fixes that correct the display colors in the Solaris
>> console login screen. It seems that the Solaris drivers assume the
>> foreground and background colors are in different palette entries to those
>> currently used by OpenBIOS causing the console to appear invisible as
>> white text on a white background.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>
>>
>> Mark Cave-Ayland (2):
>>  display.fs: fix off-by-one errors in color palette initialisation
>>  display.fs: fix palette entries for foreground and background colors
>>
>> forth/device/display.fs |   17 +++++++++--------
>> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> -- 
>> 1.7.10.4
>>
> 
> 
> Is the color problem with Linux effected by these patches?

It does also seem to fix the color issue within yaboot, although older
kernels still appear to use a faint color when switching to the VGA
console. Fortunately any improvement is generally better than none ;)


ATB,

Mark.




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