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From: Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: joey+lists@kidfixit.com
Subject: Re: perceived bug: no serial/vga simuldisplay
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 10:26:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081107102637.4bfc29c9@gibibit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1226080890.188194.4079.1000@toolshiner.phx1.kidfixit.com>

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On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:01:30 -0700
Joey Korkames <joey+lists@kidfixit.com> wrote:

> When migrating my Grub1 pxegrub setup to grub2 for testing, some of
> the new quirks in the serial system have bothered me...
> 
> Unlike Grub Legacy, where I can specifiy 
> the serial console, and have the menu simul-displayed on both vga and
> serial (if port actually exists); Grub2 can't simul-display.

I wonder if Robert Millan's 'Terminal split' patch will allow this.  He
plans, I think, to support having both AT keyboard + USB keyboard
input, so I think that supporting serial in/out and keyboard/VGA in/out
should be a similar situation.

I'll let Robert chime in on this.

Regards,
Colin

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07 18:01 perceived bug: no serial/vga simuldisplay Joey Korkames
2008-11-07 18:26 ` Colin D Bennett [this message]
2008-11-07 19:19   ` Robert Millan

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