Re: perceived bug: no serial/vga simuldisplay

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:26:37AM -0800, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> 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.

My patch (btw I just committed it) doesn't allow this per se, but it's a step
in that direction.

Multiple terminals are being discussed in that thread as well.

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