[syslinux] please revert MENU CLEAR so to make it optional again

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 27 08:58:59 PST 2012


On 11/27/2012 08:48 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 08:28 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 11/27/2012 07:00 AM, Matt Fleming wrote:
>>>
>>> How about something like this? It resets the console to text mode
>>> whenever we are about to execute a COM32 module, or we return from a
>>> COM32 module, which seems to be inline with how 4.0x worked.
>>>
>>
>> We don't want to do that unconditionally, otherwise "quiet vga=current" 
>> won't work.  Personally I don't think we need to do it at all.
>>
>> However, unless we specify vga=current we should revert to text mode 
>> before spawning the kernel.
> 
> Note the patch only changes the graphics mode for COM32 modules, not
> kernels. Something else is needed to handle the kernel stuff.
> 

I thought we had already tackled the kernel issue elsewhere, but I could
be wrong.  This is definitely a separate problem, if it is still a problem.

	-hpa




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