Re: Bug-fix elf.c powerpc ieee1275

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:22:18PM +1100, peter cros wrote: Thanks for the explanation, but the bug has been a show stopper for powerpc GNU-linux users trying to evaluate grub-ieee1275 since 1509, and is still there in rev 1891. Please can someone apply the reversion now? Bean, will you

Re: too many commands, help output rolls of screen

2008-11-02 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: output will roll off the standard sized console. Please remove some commands so there aren't so many that they roll off the screen. 'set pager=1' solves this. Btw, should we make it the default? totally, this is very annoying by

[PATCH] terminal split

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, This patch splits terminal handling in input and output. While at it, it resolves/removes some of the kludges we had to work around this limitation. For example, gfxterm/vga no longer need to assume the input is bios console, at_keyboard can be used in combination with any output terminal,

pager=1 as default? (Re: too many commands, help output rolls of screen)

2008-11-02 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: output will roll off the standard sized console. Please remove some commands so there aren't so many that they roll off the screen. 'set pager=1' solves this.

Re: pager=1 as default? (Re: too many commands, help output rolls of screen)

2008-11-02 Thread peter cros
Not yet, its not perfect just yet. For me on an apple efi macbook, pager=1 works very nicely on grub-efi (I did not know about it before), and can be unset, and it is great. But for grub ieee1275 on an apple ibookG4, it is useful, but has some erratic behaviour (garbling screen) and does not