Re: VGA terminal

[Marco Gerards]

Marco Gerards <address@hidden> writes:

> I think it is better to use hardware to do scrolling.  This will
> prevent bad graphics when scrolling and it will be a lot faster (Ok, I
> have not tested this yet...).

There is only one problem with almost any solution (using hardware or
software to scroll): How do you deal with the picture?  IIRC some
GNU/Linux distributions have support for such stuff in the modified
GRUB they distribute, is this also used on the command prompt?

Please let me know, I don't want to use work that is useless
afterwards.

I had a quick look at hardware scrolling.  I wrote some code and it
seems possible and very fast.  Well, I still have some problems with
it so it is not done yet. :)

Thanks,
Marco