Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 22.08.2008 20:40:25:
> Interesting..  I grabbed that from the device drivers reference (maybe
> old link):
>
>
download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/linux390/docu/l390dd03.pdf
> (p. 27, pdf p. 39)
>
> It mentions:
>
> "To resolve this problem, the hardware console uses an escape character
> (%) under VM to distinguish between upper and lower case characters.
> This behavior and the escape character (%) are adjustable at build-time
> by editing the driver sources, or at run time by use of the ioctl
> interface."

Note that this description of the hardware console does not apply to the
zipl boot menu. For the latter, there's no way to specify upper-case
letters as all input will be converted to lower-case.


Regards,
  Peter Oberparleiter

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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on System z Development
IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH

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