Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 1998 12:08:09 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Edward S. Marshall" <> | Subject | Re: more Boot Logo thoughts |
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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Pat St. Jean wrote: > On Thu, 14 May 1998, Dwight Hubbard wrote: > >Edward S. Marshall wrote: > >> Has anyone given any thought to the idea of pulling kernel messages > >> out of the kernel binary itself, and using numerical referencing for > >> them instead, in an attempt to see how much space would be preserved in > >> the final kernel image? > > >I like this, not only does it have the potential to make the kernel > >smaller. It could make things much easier to support. If the kernel > >just displayed the numeric code for the message instead of the message > >itself, it is much easier to get a 6 or 8 digit numeric code from a > >computer illiterate over the phone than it is to get them to read you an > >exact error message off the screen. > > Not only that, but with a little stretching of this idea you could have > native language error messages. Just make a lookup table. Compile in the > one you want. Or maybe use insmod to change it on the fly. Whee!
BINGO. That's exactly what I was aiming at...internationalization of the kernel would be almost trivial then.
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