9 Mar
2013
9 Mar
'13
1:19 p.m.
Hi all,
Whilst looking at the possibility of supporting additional graphics cards in OpenBIOS, I noticed that there are actually two terminal consoles built in: a standards-compliant Forth one in forth/device/terminal.fs and a C-based one in libopenbios/console_common.c (which is the default).
Some experimentation with the Forth console shows that with some minor fixes it can be made to work, and in fact produces better console output in many cases because the fb8-* and terminal words are implemented correctly.
With this in mind, I'd like to propose switching over to the Forth console and removing the C console entirely. Would anyone have any major objections to doing this?
ATB,
Mark.