Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #985 | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:38:14 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> said: > alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) said: > > I think this is overcomplicating a simple issue. We can do the penguin > > for the cost of basically no memory as follows
> > In the console init code set up the font characters, and change the > > clear screen sequence at the start of console init to be
> > clear screen > > draw penguins/logo/version string etc > > set scrolling region to start at line below penguin. The text will leave > > that region nicely untouched until a change scroll region or reset terminal > > string occurs.
After this, you can reset the character table to normal (assuming this doesn't affect the characters displayed?), so later messages can't get screwed up. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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