Several sources document that the Bell, Backspace, newline, and carriage return characters are interpreted by int 10/0e. There does not seem to be any references to that function interpreting tab. The original "lgpl vgabios" has code for interpreting tab, but the code is incorrect. Finally, tests on an ATI vgabios indicate that tab is not interpreted.
Signed-off-by: Kevin O'Connor kevin@koconnor.net --- vgasrc/vgabios.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/vgasrc/vgabios.c b/vgasrc/vgabios.c index b6d9dc2..65d325a 100644 --- a/vgasrc/vgabios.c +++ b/vgasrc/vgabios.c @@ -203,13 +203,6 @@ write_teletype(struct cursorpos *pcp, struct carattr ca) case '\n': cp.y++; break; - case '\t': - ca.car = ' '; - do { - vgafb_write_char(cp, ca); - cp.x++; - } while (cp.x < nbcols && cp.x % 8); - break; default: vgafb_write_char(cp, ca); cp.x++;