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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 27 08:28:09 PST 2012


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.

	-hpa

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