On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> It also would allow one to kick the VGA display into 132 columns in
> the boot loader and have more of a chance to get more of the boot
> process on the screen. syscons already supports parts of this...
I was just reading through the thread again, and I was thinking about a
Sun style boot where the screen is kicked into the VESA mode of your
choice, we could have a FreeBSD daemon displaying in the upper left
corner, etc.
> There is no reason to hard code 80 into the kernel. Otherwise one
> could argue why have stty columns at all :-).
I have to agree with this, flexibility == AGoodThing(TM).
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