From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 10:25: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA8514CCF; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20600; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:31 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA18087; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: it's time... Cc: Nate Williams , Peter Wemm , Cameron Grant , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Aug 1999 12:49:28 EDT." References: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:56 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : The line wrapping stuff I brought back for the EISA bus stuff in -current : makes it easy to define the wrap point. If some small number of people : want the ability to wrap at 132 or 40 or whatever, I don't think its : unreasonable to provide them the knob to tweak in the boot loader. Despite what nate think about 80 columns, my PDA cannot display more than between 30-45 characters, depending on the font, so having a knob for that would be useful in the long term. It also would allow one to kick the VGA display into 132 columns in the boot loader and have more of a chance to get more of the boot process on the screen. syscons already supports parts of this... There is no reason to hard code 80 into the kernel. Otherwise one could argue why have stty columns at all :-). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message