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SubjectRe: linux-kernel-digest V1 #985
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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.
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