Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 1996 16:17:59 -0500 | From | "Theodore Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Blind-access patch for Linux 1.3.x |
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I'm the most uncomfortable with the changes to the bootsector. We only have so many configuration bytes available, and using a full byte for the blind option seems to not be the best use of that resource.
Question: is it really critical that all of the hardware probe messages always be accessible via the blind-mode console? How about this as a proposal:
All kernels will have support for turning on/off "blind mode" via the escape sequences. Init will recognize the kernel command line argument "blind=1", and if it sees it, it will send the escape sequence to all of the console. A blind person who wishes to see the boot messages gets Linux running using the above procedure, and then recompiles a kernel whose default mode is "blind mode on". That will allow the blind person to see the hardware probing boot messages.
That simplifies the changes to the kernel, and hopefully it meets your requirements. What do you think?
- Ted
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