Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Andreas Koppenhoefer) | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 | Date | 12 Jun 1996 09:32:11 +0200 |
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>>>>> "AT" == Aaron Tiensivu <tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu> writes: AT> AT> Ideas for 2.1 (subtitled "Things that make you go, hmmmm...") : AT> [...] AT> AT> o Keeping the name 'linux' instead of 'lignux'
Who wants to change that? I think only emacs developers have used lignux so far.
AT> o This might sound campy, but it might be useful. Colorization of some of AT> the boot-up displays. This way, you don't end up with the added waste AT> of a graphical display [like Win95], but it still looks a little more AT> 'jazzier'. Whether this is possible at all, I'm not sure. It just popped in AT> my head.
I like the idea of having important messages highlighted (red) while others informational messages are dimmed (green). What about assigning colours and text attributes to each kernel log level like this: Color & Attributes Level # Description red highlighted blink EMERG 0 system is unusable red highlighted inverse ALERT 1 action must be taken immediately red highlighted CRIT 2 critical conditions yellow highlighted ERR 3 error conditions yellow WARNING 4 warning conditions green NOTICE 5 normal but significant condition (normal text) INFO 6 informational dimmed blue? DEBUG 7 debug-level messages
Maybe this is not a kernel issue. IMHO colorisation belongs into klogd! On the other hand it must be in kernel to take effect with boot messages... I'm not sure about the use of blinking and inverse.
AT> o [...] Also shorten display width of some messages so that they will AT> fit snugly into an 80 column line, instead of partially bleeding onto AT> the next line below it. AT> Before: AT> Linux version 2.0.0 (root@lucretia) (gcc version 2.7.2.l.3) #7- Sun Jun 9 AT> 12:23:42 EDT 1996 AT> AT> After: AT> Linux 2.0.0 (root@lucretia) (gcc 2.7.2.l.3) #7-Jun 9 12:23:42 EDT 1996
Indeed 'version' should be left out. But look at that nasty '-': your source tree contains an empty file linux/.name: remove it, recompile and that minus will turn into a space. Suppose you've upgraded kernel sources by applying patches and didn't use patch option '-E' (removing empty files) and you never did a 'make mrproper'.
AT> o Allowing the video mode code at boot-up to be optional [the whole AT> "Press <space> for choices", video card probing, etc].
Just add 'vga=0' to lilo.conf or say 'rdev -v /vmlinuz 0' to get rid of that message. The code for video probing is still in kernel with that. But, your video must get initialized somehow.
We need an other one...
o serial console support
o make VGA/SVGA/CGA/etc. video and console support optional. Together with serial console support, it's completely useless without keyboard and monitor.
- Andreas
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