From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KwFuv-000318-Qb for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:49:25 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KwFut-0002yq-Q2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:49:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KwFus-0002xa-V0 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:49:23 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57434 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KwFus-0002xT-Rf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:49:22 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:35412) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KwFus-0008CA-FN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:49:22 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KwFuV-0006ye-3l for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:48:59 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KwFuK-0006FX-Hx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:48:48 +0100 Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:48:48 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20081101124848.GC14721@thorin> References: <1460730204.89441223439151710.JavaMail.root@aczmb1> <48ECE286.9090701@nic.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <48ECE286.9090701@nic.fi> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: No scrolling for long input lines 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, 01 Nov 2008 12:49:24 -0000 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."