Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:56:50 +0100 | From | Simon Tatham <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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In article <199606110850.JAA10434@snowcrash.cymru.net> you write: >> > Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. >> Only if they are ALWAYS printed on ANY failure > >The normal failure mode of these two is > >Checking 'hlt' instruction... >(Hang...) > >Thus we can't not print it out
It can be done, surely? At that point in bootup we have the console driver in full working order. So can't we just replace "Ok.\n" with "\r\e[K", which will wipe the message off the screen *if* the test is successful.
Maybe that's a bit fancy though...
-- <^ I /\/\ O /\/ Simon Tatham <sgt20@cam.ac.uk> _> ------------ Trinity College, Cambridge, CB2 1TQ, England
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