From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: No scrolling for long input lines
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:48:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081101124848.GC14721@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48ECE286.9090701@nic.fi>
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:40:38PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> grub_console_real_putchar there is quite good comment about what are
> BIOS limitations.
>
> Choices are to modify this code here, or make better bios console terminal.
Would vga_text.c solve the problem? VGA text is alwats garanteed to work on
BIOS.
Perhaps we could have kernel use bios console, and normal mode switch to
vga_text.c somehow.
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Robert Millan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-01 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-10-08 4:12 ` No scrolling for long input lines Andy Goth
2008-10-08 16:40 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-11-01 12:48 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-10-07 17:40 Andy Goth
2008-10-07 17:48 ` Felix Zielcke
2008-10-07 19:06 ` Andy Goth
2008-11-09 22:08 ` Robert Millan
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