From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 10:30:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACB48155CF; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:30:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04915; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:29:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA29297; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:29:04 -0600 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:29:04 -0600 Message-Id: <199908111729.LAA29297@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Warner Losh Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Nate Williams , Peter Wemm , Cameron Grant , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... In-Reply-To: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> References: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : 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. And you plan on booting FreeBSD on your PDA? > 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... My firewall doesn't have a VGA display. :( > There is no reason to hard code 80 into the kernel. Otherwise one > could argue why have stty columns at all :-). stty columns is only effective *AFTER* you have a shell and the box has booted. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message