From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 14:12:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from megadodo.segNET.COM (megadodo.segNET.COM [206.34.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A6C14E38; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adams@digitalspark.net) Received: from arc0a97.wrj.sover.net (arc0a97.wrj.sover.net [209.198.95.97]) by megadodo.segNET.COM (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA20865; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:09:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:12:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl 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> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message