From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] default terminals on i386-pc / i386-ieee1275
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:42:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <491C670F.6050602@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081112181128.GA10129@thorin>
Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be good to make at_keyboard the default input terminal on
> i386-ieee1275, after the kernel has loaded (via grub-mkconfig). The AT
> keyboard is the only choice on OLPC anyway, and avoids ofconsole bugs
> (this used to be the old behaviour before the terminal split).
>
> Also, I think it would be good to make vga_text the default output terminal
> on i386-pc, provided that gfxterm auto-setup (in grub-mkconfig.in) wasn't
> possible. BIOS output is occasionally buggy (seen in a recent thread), and
> this way we avoid problems.
And how does this work with USB keyboards that would be supported by
BIOS if configured so... ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 18:11 [PATCH] default terminals on i386-pc / i386-ieee1275 Robert Millan
2008-11-13 17:42 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2008-11-22 19:57 ` Robert Millan
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