From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Sugguestion: separate input and output driver
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:45:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxs1uyeq.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0f59980805290109m2faa1efsba905c8a0c13ce3@mail.gmail.com> (bean123ch@gmail.com's message of "Thu, 29 May 2008 16:09:54 +0800")
Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently, input and output are bundled together, this make it quite
> difficult to extend.
>
> Input:
> Keyboard, Serial
>
> Output:
> Text mode, Video mode
>
> Now, the binding is fixed using individual module:
>
> Keyboard + Text = console
> Keyboard + Video = gfxterm
> Serial + Text = serial
> Serial + Video = ?
What do you mean by text? For the PC console, output is different
than that of the serial console.
Besides that, this seams like a good plan. This is something we need,
but no one took the time to implement this.
--
Marco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-29 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-29 8:09 Sugguestion: separate input and output driver Bean
2008-05-29 9:46 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-29 9:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-05-29 11:45 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
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