Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:51:19 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser. |
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>> > (it is hard to understand that with 128MB+ graphic cards and 512+MB >> > computers the scroll back must be still so short...) >> >> The VGA scrollback buffer is limited by the text area of the video RAM. >> The text area is in the DOS memory at 0xB800 (or 0xB000) and extends >> 32 KB (or in case of MDA, 4 KB). Each character will use 2 Bytes. >> Therefore you can store up to 16,000 characters or 4 pages of text. > >It was a rhetorical question. > And I assumed that scrollback was stored in some regular kmalloc()ed page(s).
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