>>> On 8/25/2008 at 4:24 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter 1 Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Could that also be put (somewhere) in the commands and device drivers manual? Until you posted this, I was under the same impression that Brad was that this worked in all cases, _especially_ at the zipl boot menu. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
