From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 27 18:32:20 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alcanet.com.au (mail.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE6D37B779; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:32:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: by border.alcanet.com.au id <115218>; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:32:57 +1100 Content-return: prohibited From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c In-reply-to: <20000226152623.E33A91CE3@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 02:27:39AM +1100 To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Robert Watson , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Message-Id: <00Feb28.133257est.115218@border.alcanet.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <20000226152623.E33A91CE3@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:32:57 +1100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 2000-Feb-27 02:27:39 +1100, Peter Wemm wrote: >I thought we were talking about accessing dmesg at initial install time.. >ie: after sysinstall has cleared the scrollback buffer on ttyv0. One (fairly) simple change would be for sysinstall to run on (eg) ttyv1, leaving the contents of ttyv0 untouched. This can be done using VT_ACTIVATE so the user doesn't need to know the difference (unless they want to look at the output). Admittedly, you still lose anything that scrolls off the screen before sc initialises. Getting sysinstall to read machdep.msgbuf seems fairly easy - if there's already suitable code to display and scroll an arbitrary buffer (which I think there is), it should be almost trivial. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message