Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:30:03 GMT From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/121064: [patch] Use ASCII characters for box/line characters in frames.4th Message-ID: <200803312130.m2VLU31W028991@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/121064; it has been noted by GNATS. From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/121064: [patch] Use ASCII characters for box/line characters in frames.4th Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:57:29 -0400 On Saturday 29 March 2008 02:10:12 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:59:02PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > This doesn't appear to handle the multiple console case (e.g. > > console="vidconsole comconsole"). Perhaps you could change the i386 > > comconsole driver to use an internal re-mapping table to map the line chars > > to the ASCII chars instead? > > Yeah, multiple consoles won't work correctly with the patch. I don't > know of an easy way to fix that in Forth, since (I think) there's no > support for wildcard or regex matching in strings. > > Re: changing the i386 comconsole driver: wouldn't this affect all data > output across comconsole? I'm not sure if blindly filtering data in > that driver is the best idea. If I'm misunderstanding, my apologies. > But it seems like since the loader menus are being output in Forth, the > problem should fixed there. Depends. Is there any time when you don't want the box chars to be converted on the serial console? -- John Baldwin
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