From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IjJxz-0007hJ-QH for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:26:35 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjJxx-0007gn-TB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:26:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjJxw-0007g4-EC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:26:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjJxw-0007g1-Bi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:26:32 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjJxu-0003oJ-5I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:26:30 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IjJxq-0000U5-Q3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:26:29 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IjJxY-0001bZ-Fh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:26:08 +0200 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:26:08 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20071020192608.GA6128@thorin> References: <20071019223533.GA29164@thorin> <4719B02C.8080405@nic.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4719B02C.8080405@nic.fi> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: status of VGA terminal X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:26:34 -0000 On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:37:16AM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone knows what's the status of vga.c ? It's currently disabled in the build > > system. I reenabled and got it to build again (see attached patch), but it > > just displays garbage. > > > > Is it intended to be integrated with gfxterm? > > If you want to make video driver for it then and keep it up-to-date, > otherwise no. Personally I have no intention to work on it. It displays > garbage because font system has changed... and will be changed again in > future once there is vector font support. For that I think font blitter > goes away and new bitmap blitter (or old one) is used. > > Question how to scale to different display sizes hasn't been solved > either... This is the main reason for vector fonts, scaling bitmap fonts > just gets really ugly. Ok, when I have some time I'll try making it a video driver then. In the meantime, should we remove it from CVS ? It will have to be removed anyway since video drivers don't belong in term/. -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)