grub-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: x86 serial support


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: x86 serial support
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:54:28 +0200
User-agent: KMail/1.7.2

On Sunday 14 August 2005 15:03, Marco Gerards wrote:
> There are also people using 286 computers, etc.  My opinion is that we
> should focus on the most important things first.  That is vt100/ansi
> support first.  If someone really wants dumb terminal support he can
> explain why and he can implement it if it does not break anything
> else.  What do you think?

"if it does not break anything else" would be quite hard. If someone really 
wants to support dumb terminals, she must also modify the command-line 
interface, like I did in GRUB Legacy.

I agree with you, however. Only if anyone absolutely needs dumb terminal 
support, it should be implemented.

Okuji




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]