vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTs

Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible
cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so,
unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9107b387e91f..dd42eb65fd27 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2729,6 +2729,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
                         Default is 1, i.e. UTF-8 mode is enabled for all
                         newly opened terminals.
 
+        vt.global_cursor_default=
+                        [VT]
+                        Format=<-1|0|1>
+                        Set system-wide default for whether a cursor
+                        is shown on new VTs. Default is -1,
+                        i.e. cursors will be created by default unless
+                        overridden by individual drivers. 0 will hide
+                        cursors, 1 will display them.
+
         waveartist=     [HW,OSS]
                         Format: <io>,<irq>,<dma>,<dma2>