Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 13:50:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Boot Loader Menu Message-ID: <D9283111-FD74-47E5-B7B8-35D736A5AB68@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0CB9F1EA-2176-4AE9-B899-6E8744D06DC7@fisglobal.com> References: <0655B56F-AD43-402B-872C-568378E650F9@fisglobal.com> <86k3v21qsx.fsf@ds4.des.no> <3EB58454-7820-43C4-911E-7DEF2D02C880@fisglobal.com> <86fw5q15f9.fsf@ds4.des.no> <D61F7ED5-76C3-453D-878A-F0C678198C87@fisglobal.com> <A5FE9B8C-742B-45E0-85EB-1092A7D58D04@gmail.com> <0CB9F1EA-2176-4AE9-B899-6E8744D06DC7@fisglobal.com>
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On Oct 7, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > On Oct 7, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >=20 >> - Have you considered high resolution screens/fonts; there are some = already in FreeBSD hooked into syscons, but that's available later on at = boot? I mention this because there's a lot of wasted real estate on my = 30" or 24" LCDs when I boot up FreeBSD. >=20 > Adding screen real-estate won't help. Menus (and any of the maximum = 65535 submenus) are always limited to 9 maximum menu items. >=20 > A significant overhaul of the Forth code would be required to = accommodate more than 9 menu items per-menu. >=20 > Currently, if a 10th menuitem were rendered (assuming I lifted the = boundary-checks), it would be rendered as such: >=20 > =85 > 8. Eighth Item > 9. Ninth Item > 1. Tenth item > =85 >=20 > Worse, you press "8" to invoke the 8th item, "9" to invoke the 9th = item, but ":" to invoke the 10th item (wait, what?) >=20 > Yes, ":" to invoke the 10th item. Because currently ASCII keycodes are = used to associate menu items. The next character after "9" is ":". :(=85 Understood. >> I'd like to see sketches or a general idea of what you have in mind = before investing too much time in a direction that doesn't bear a lot of = fruit. I'm sure others here agree. >=20 > Sorry, but I'm the infrastructure guy. I provide the framework. I'll = leave it to the community to decide how to use that framework. I'm = leaving it in jpaetzel's, avg's, and mav's very capable hands to utilize = my framework in whatever way they see fit. >=20 > They came to me with a need. I filled that need. If the community = doesn't want it, I'll just dump it into DruidBSD and use it there until = someone wants it. Ok. I wasn't aware of the language constraints with Forth (I've dabbled = very briefly in it, but I am by no means even a novice), and now I = better understand some of the issues you're facing. Thanks for the explanation! I'll try to be more less critical next time. -Garrett=
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