A patch to allow setting EGA/VGA screen border color

[Lou Sortman]

I have written a patch to allow setting the color of the screen
border on EGA/VGA text displays. Even though it is only ~3.5K
in size, I hesitate to post it here. How should I go about
releasing it so as not to disturb kernel development much?
It would be nice to get it included in the official kernel.

Here are the comments from the patch:

# This is a patch to the Linux kernel console driver to add the capability of
# setting the border color on EGA or VGA displays. I saw somewhere that seting
# the border color is an extension of setting the text foreground and
# background colors; ie: ^[[5xm instead of ^[[3xm and ^[[4xm.

# So it is implemented here.

# Resetting the terminal sets the border color to be the same as the text
# background color. In order to be able to use this feature, you must
# put the entry ':rs=\Ec:' somewhere in /etc/termcap. Then you will
# be able to set the border color to the background color by invoking
# the following command:
# setterm -reset

# You can explicitly set the border color to the background color
# (without resetting the terminal) by using ^[[59m.
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