[syslinux] [PATCH] core: Honor DISPLAY text background color when in VGA mode

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 10:36 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Since we already write the graphics screen directly, perhaps we should
> just generate the text ourselves rather than relying on the BIOS.

That doesn't seem unreasonable.  It'd be a bit of work, though, and I
wasn't sure what you'd think of such a change.  For that matter, how
long does this code have to live?  Can I expect to see it all rewritten
in C in the next year? (or the last, while I wasn't looking?)

-- Jeff