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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: No scrolling for long input lines
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:48:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081101124848.GC14721@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ECE286.9090701@nic.fi>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:40:38PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> grub_console_real_putchar there is quite good comment about what are
> BIOS limitations.
> 
> Choices are to modify this code here, or make better bios console terminal.

Would vga_text.c solve the problem?  VGA text is alwats garanteed to work on
BIOS.

Perhaps we could have kernel use bios console, and normal mode switch to
vga_text.c somehow.

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."



  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-01 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <270343305.88391223432285723.JavaMail.root@aczmb1>
2008-10-08  4:12 ` No scrolling for long input lines Andy Goth
2008-10-08 16:40   ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-01 12:48     ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-10-07 17:40 Andy Goth
2008-10-07 17:48 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-10-07 19:06   ` Andy Goth
2008-11-09 22:08 ` Robert Millan

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