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A tempest in a tty potA tempest in a tty potPosted Jul 29, 2009 19:35 UTC (Wed) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)In reply to: A tempest in a tty pot by BrucePerens Parent article: A tempest in a tty pot
Why the ANSI terminal to framebuffer code? I would have thought that simple line printing, along with a couple of ioctls for moving the cursor and selecting colours would be enough. And of course all the virtual terminal stuff is not needed either for printing kernel messages.
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A tempest in a tty pot Posted Jul 29, 2009 19:41 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] Well, the color is set with ANSI codes. And there's a lot of code that backspaces over itself and reprints while indicating something in process.So. you end up with a reasonably large piece of function-duplicating code if you split the kernel console and a more elaborate user console.
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