[OpenBIOS] [PATCH v2 0/2] Display color fixes

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Fri Apr 21 22:17:14 CEST 2017


On 21/04/17 07:48, 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>
> 
> v2:
> - Reword commit message for first patch as suggested by Tarl
> 
> 
> 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(-)

Amazingly enough this seems to solve nearly all of the bootloader color
issues across all of SPARC32/SPARC64/PPC so I've pushed it to git master
in preparation for a pull request tomorrow (I'm clearing the stable part
of my patch backlog before I head off on holiday).


ATB,

Mark.




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