Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)" + "`Subject:' usage"

Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-07T16:38:03Z

On Oct 7 2007 13:10, Oleg Verych wrote:

>This `scrollback' is usual late boot / console one. If fact useful,
>until first tty switch or if `screen` cannot be used. But for some
>reason if scrolling region (DECSTBM) is less than whole screen, nothing
>works.

Actually, scrolling begins to work once userspace starts, and the
scrollback buffer (given enough size) still contains the first screenful
when Linux started, which may include the bootloader (if the loader did not
zero the screen before handing control over).