conf/121064: [patch] Use ASCII characters for box/line characters in frames.4th

[John Baldwin]

The following reply was made to PR conf/121064; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: conf/121064: [patch] Use ASCII characters for box/line characters in frames.4th
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:57:29 -0400

 On Saturday 29 March 2008 02:10:12 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:59:02PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
 > > This doesn't appear to handle the multiple console case (e.g. 
 > > console="vidconsole comconsole").  Perhaps you could change the i386 
 > > comconsole driver to use an internal re-mapping table to map the line 
 chars 
 > > to the ASCII chars instead?
 > 
 > Yeah, multiple consoles won't work correctly with the patch.  I don't
 > know of an easy way to fix that in Forth, since (I think) there's no
 > support for wildcard or regex matching in strings.
 > 
 > Re: changing the i386 comconsole driver: wouldn't this affect all data
 > output across comconsole?  I'm not sure if blindly filtering data in
 > that driver is the best idea.  If I'm misunderstanding, my apologies.
 > But it seems like since the loader menus are being output in Forth, the
 > problem should fixed there.
 
 Depends.  Is there any time when you don't want the box chars to be converted 
 on the serial console?
 
 -- 
 John Baldwin