From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij8tW-0007Lw-PZ for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:37:14 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij8tU-0007LZ-Pq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:37:12 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij8tR-0007LN-Tz for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:37:12 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ij8tR-0007LK-R9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:37:09 -0400 Received: from pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.168]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij8tR-0004jN-P1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:37:10 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (88.193.32.97) by pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.3.129) id 47194C3800002256 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:37:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4719B02C.8080405@nic.fi> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:37:16 +0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Vesa_J=E4=E4skel=E4inen?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20071019223533.GA29164@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20071019223533.GA29164@thorin> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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 07:37:13 -0000 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.