Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:12:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111709120.415-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net> In-Reply-To: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > It also would allow one to kick the VGA display into 132 columns in > the boot loader and have more of a chance to get more of the boot > process on the screen. syscons already supports parts of this... I was just reading through the thread again, and I was thinking about a Sun style boot where the screen is kicked into the VESA mode of your choice, we could have a FreeBSD daemon displaying in the upper left corner, etc. > There is no reason to hard code 80 into the kernel. Otherwise one > could argue why have stty columns at all :-). I have to agree with this, flexibility == AGoodThing(TM). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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