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daybrown wrote:
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> About color in, I presume, text mode, would it be possible 
> to use assembly rather than ncurses?

In BL1 and BL2 you can use echo to change colors:
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echo -ne '\033[31m'     # red
echo -ne '\033[32m'     # green
echo -ne '\033[33m'     # yellow
...etc...

echo -ne '\033[1m'      # bold
echo -ne '\033[0m'      # off 
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It is also possible to embed color changes in strings.
See /etc/issue for examples of this.

Cheers,
Steven