[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.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center




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