Re: [PATCH] default terminals on i386-pc / i386-ieee1275

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:42:39PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think it would be good to make at_keyboard the default input terminal on
> > i386-ieee1275, after the kernel has loaded (via grub-mkconfig).  The AT
> > keyboard is the only choice on OLPC anyway, and avoids ofconsole bugs
> > (this used to be the old behaviour before the terminal split).
> > 
> > Also, I think it would be good to make vga_text the default output terminal
> > on i386-pc, provided that gfxterm auto-setup (in grub-mkconfig.in) wasn't
> > possible.  BIOS output is occasionally buggy (seen in a recent thread), and
> > this way we avoid problems.
> 
> And how does this work with USB keyboards that would be supported by
> BIOS if configured so... ?

On i386-ieee1275, this doesn't really happen, because OFW shuts down USB when
handing control to GRUB.  Note that using at_keyboard was the existing behaviour
up untill recently (it reverted to ofconsole because of the terminal split).

On PC/BIOS, my proposed change would only affect terminal output.

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