Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 25.08.2008 19:07:47:
> >>> On 8/25/2008 at  4:24 AM, in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> com>, Peter 1
> Oberparleiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 22.08.2008
20:40:25:
> >> "To resolve this problem, the hardware console uses an escape
character
> >> (%) under VM to distinguish between upper and lower case characters.
> >> This behavior and the escape character (%) are adjustable at
build-time
> >> by editing the driver sources, or at run time by use of the ioctl
> >> interface."
> >
> > Note that this description of the hardware console does not apply to
the
> > zipl boot menu. For the latter, there's no way to specify upper-case
> > letters as all input will be converted to lower-case.
>
> Could that also be put (somewhere) in the commands and device
> drivers manual?  Until you posted this, I was under the same
> impression that Brad was that this worked in all cases, _especially_
> at the zipl boot menu.

I agree that this may be misleading. I'll see that the docs about
hardware console usage when running Linux under VM are updated to be
more clear on this matter. Thanks for pointing this out.


Regards,
  Peter Oberparleiter

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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on System z Development
IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH

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