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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-08-24 08:46:03 -0700
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Merge tag 'pinctrl-v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrlgrafted
Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij: "Core changes: - Use the non-blocking mux_state_try_select() in the generic MUX pin control back-end - Free pin maps on pinctrl_generic_to_map() failure in the core helpers New hardware pin control: - Qualcomm Maili TLMM SoC, PMG1110 PMIC, and Eliza LPASS LPI TLMM SoC (this is for the low power audio, LPASS = Low Power Audio SubSystem portions) - Upboard support on top of the Intel pin controller - Apple T6030 and T6031 support (just compatible strings) - Samsung Exynos 8855 SoC - Mediatek MT6858 SoC - Rockchip RK3308B and RV1106 SoCs - Airoha EN7523 and AN7563 SoCs Improvements: - Qualcomm TLMM GPIOs are unconditionally marked as wakeup capable - Qualcomm improvements on top of the Qualcomm PDC (power domain controller) irqchip improvements from tglx:s tree - Qualcomm IPQ806x and IPQ9650 non-urgent pin grop fixups - The NPCM8xx driver has been put into shape fixing many pin and group definitions - Some non-urgent Tegra 264 pin assignments are fixed up - Some non-urgent fixups to Airoha AN7581 and AN7583 registers and pin assignments, missing features etc" * tag 'pinctrl-v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (130 commits) dt-bindings: pinctrl: Convert TI DA850 pupd to DT schema pinctrl: meson: sync some modify from A4 pinctrl: meson: a4: Add input enable pin configuration pinctrl: realtek: rtd1625: remove unused group name spdif_sel pinctrl: realtek: rtd1625: fix base_bit for VE4 GPIO 13 dt-bindings: pinctrl: microchip,pic32mzda-pinctrl: Convert to DT schema Revert "Merge branch 'ib-rsk7204' into devel" pinctrl: rockchip: Add RV1106 pinctrl support dt-bindings: pinctrl: rockchip: Add RV1106 compatible pinctrl: rockchip: Decode drive strength in the get function pinctrl: fix PINCTRL_GENERIC_MUX not always being selectable pinctrl: airoha: add support of an7563 SoC dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: add support of an7563 pin controller pinctrl: airoha: try to find chip scu node by phandle first pinctrl: airoha: add support of en7523 SoC dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: add support of en7523 pin controller pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for olt pinmux pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for pon_alt pinmux pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add support for npu_uart pinmux dt-bindings: pinctrl: airoha: an7583: add missed features ...
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+Software cursor for VGA
+=======================
+
+by Pavel Machek <pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+and Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
+
+Linux now has some ability to manipulate cursor appearance. Normally,
+you can set the size of hardware cursor. You can now play a few new
+tricks: you can make your cursor look like a non-blinking red block,
+make it inverse background of the character it's over or to highlight
+that character and still choose whether the original hardware cursor
+should remain visible or not. There may be other things I have never
+thought of.
+
+The cursor appearance is controlled by a ``<ESC>[?1;2;3c`` escape sequence
+where 1, 2 and 3 are parameters described below. If you omit any of them,
+they will default to zeroes.
+
+first Parameter
+ specifies cursor size::
+
+ 0=default
+ 1=invisible
+ 2=underline,
+ ...
+ 8=full block
+ + 16 if you want the software cursor to be applied
+ + 32 if you want to always change the background color
+ + 64 if you dislike having the background the same as the
+ foreground.
+
+ Highlights are ignored for the last two flags.
+
+second parameter
+ selects character attribute bits you want to change
+ (by simply XORing them with the value of this parameter). On standard
+ VGA, the high four bits specify background and the low four the
+ foreground. In both groups, low three bits set color (as in normal
+ color codes used by the console) and the most significant one turns
+ on highlight (or sometimes blinking -- it depends on the configuration
+ of your VGA).
+
+third parameter
+ consists of character attribute bits you want to set.
+
+ Bit setting takes place before bit toggling, so you can simply clear a
+ bit by including it in both the set mask and the toggle mask.
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+To get normal blinking underline, use::
+
+ echo -e '\033[?2c'
+
+To get blinking block, use::
+
+ echo -e '\033[?6c'
+
+To get red non-blinking block, use::
+
+ echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'