From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IjK4x-0003Tv-TO for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:33:47 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjK4w-0003Tq-Ht for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:33:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjK4s-0003TP-2m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:33:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjK4r-0003TM-Qj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:33:41 -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 1IjK4r-0006MF-IX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:33:41 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (88.193.32.97) by pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.3.129) id 471A40AA00000B4B for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:33:39 +0200 Message-ID: <471A581D.60402@nic.fi> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:33:49 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVzYSBKw6TDpHNrZWzDpGluZW4=?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <20071019223533.GA29164@thorin> <4719B02C.8080405@nic.fi> <20071020192608.GA6128@thorin> In-Reply-To: <20071020192608.GA6128@thorin> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable 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 19:33:46 -0000 Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:37:16AM +0300, Vesa J=C3=A4=C3=A4skel=C3=A4i= nen wrote: >> 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 display= s >> garbage because font system has changed... and will be changed again i= n >> future once there is vector font support. For that I think font blitte= r >> 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 fon= ts >> just gets really ugly. >=20 > Ok, when I have some time I'll try making it a video driver then. >=20 > In the meantime, should we remove it from CVS ? It will have to be rem= oved > anyway since video drivers don't belong in term/. Well it is vga terminal :). Implements terminal interface at the moment. Just being a bit rotten... That is the reason why it is disabled. That being said, if there would be really a vga video driver then that would definitely need to be placed elsewhere. If you just remove it from CVS it will most likely be forgotten and base code will be "lost". You are of course free to do as you wish with vga terminal. I have no objections on its removal.