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 -- Peter Oberparleiter Linux on System z Development IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
