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Re: [PATCH] default terminals on i386-pc / i386-ieee1275
From: |
Vesa Jääskeläinen |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] default terminals on i386-pc / i386-ieee1275 |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:42:39 +0200 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) |
Robert Millan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be good to make at_keyboard the default input terminal on
> i386-ieee1275, after the kernel has loaded (via grub-mkconfig). The AT
> keyboard is the only choice on OLPC anyway, and avoids ofconsole bugs
> (this used to be the old behaviour before the terminal split).
>
> Also, I think it would be good to make vga_text the default output terminal
> on i386-pc, provided that gfxterm auto-setup (in grub-mkconfig.in) wasn't
> possible. BIOS output is occasionally buggy (seen in a recent thread), and
> this way we avoid problems.
And how does this work with USB keyboards that would be supported by
BIOS if configured so... ?