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Re: No scrolling for long input lines


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: No scrolling for long input lines
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:48:48 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

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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