Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:24:16 +1200 (NZST) | From | Colin Coghill <> | Subject | Ideas for v2.1 (colour bootup msgs) |
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, John Sullivan wrote: > > In the kernel you make a call like printk(KERN_WARN"<GREEN> foo > starting\n"), nothing technically needs to handle this. If the final > logging entity *knows* we are running on a standard on-board vga > console, in can translate the extra tags into the correct escape > sequences with little extra cost. You could even customize an xconsole
Oh dear, I supposed I'd better be the one to be first to mention that we should markup by content, not by appearance. :-)
printk(KERN_WARN,"<KERN PRIORITY=WARN>Foo starting </KERN>");
anyone? :-)
Personally, I think that although colour bootup would be very nice, it's just too much of an ugly hack to be worth it...
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