[syslinux] please revert MENU CLEAR so to make it optional again
Matt Fleming
matt at console-pimps.org
Tue Nov 27 08:48:30 PST 2012
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.
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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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