Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:46:16 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@ravenock.cybercity.dk> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) Message-ID: <199702170946.KAA00442@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <199702170322.NAA07336@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Feb 17, 97 01:52:21 pm"
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
> John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying:
> >
> > this may sound like a stupid question.. but can you check the
> > keyboard between probes to see if there are any keypresses.... I remeber
>
> We've already been over all this; I've proposed a between-probes hook,
> but I don't think that anyone would be particularly keen on it as a concept.
>
> It would be just as easy for the console output code to check whenever
> it's printing output, which happens between/during probes; perhaps on
> every newline.
>
> Soren?
Hmm, well, I could add a check for char input at the right places in
syscons, all I need is to find out when we are finished probing...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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