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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
index da55ccaf4d55..564643edb3c1 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c
@@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ static void vgacon_init(struct vc_data *c, int init)
         vgacon_uni_pagedir[1]++;
         if (!vgacon_uni_pagedir[0] && p)
                 con_set_default_unimap(c);
+
+        hide_boot_cursor(screen_info.flags & VIDEO_FLAGS_NOCURSOR);
 }
 
 static void vgacon_deinit(struct vc_data *c)