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Date:      Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:12:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: it's time... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908111709120.415-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908111724.LAA18087@harmony.village.org>

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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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...

I was just reading through the thread again, and I was thinking about a
Sun style boot where the screen is kicked into the VESA mode of your
choice, we could have a FreeBSD daemon displaying in the upper left
corner, etc.

> There is no reason to hard code 80 into the kernel.  Otherwise one
> could argue why have stty columns at all :-).

I have to agree with this, flexibility == AGoodThing(TM).

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