On Oct 7 2007 16:12, Alan Cox wrote: > >- We run on a lot more than VGA PC consoles >- We have serial consoles (which may or may not be VT132/ANSI compliant)
Yes, and the serial driver does not usually pass on vc->vc_color to the real hardware. If it did, it would have to transform it back into an unportable ANSI code and send that. So we don't do that. >- The printk paths are run at IRQ time ASAP to get messages to console, >that could mean we split existing colour escape code processing and the >like. Oleg already persuaded me to add options to toally configure it out, so there is no impact for you. >- People redirect the console feed other places via ioctl. Some of them >parse "<%d>" as the start Interestingly enough, the <n> part is not transferred over serial, but that seems another story. >- If you want to do "pretty" boot up you do it in X or frame buffer >(which is going to get easier and easier with the X shift to kernel side >video support) fb is slow. Feels like a 9600bps serial line. Let everyone have his own fun. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/