> : 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
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