[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 00/16] Switch to standards-compliant Forth console from C console

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/03/13 19:31, Blue Swirl wrote:
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>>> Based on a quick Debian 3.1 CDROM boot test, it looks like scrolling
>>> and clear screen does not work at all. Text is also offset by one line
>>> down and one column right.
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> Okay - is this on SPARC? I have a feeling the offset by one is simply
> because apparently the OF line# and column# variables are zero based while
> the ANSI terminal position is one based.

Well, we should be true to original.

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>> NetBSD 4.0 also suffers from lack of scrolling and clear screen, but
>> characters are positioned correctly.
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> SPARC again? If so, can you point me towards the ISO and I'll try it here?

Yes.

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/iso/4.0/sparccd-4.0.iso

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-31r1a-sparc-businesscard.iso

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>> On the positive side, reverse text now works and I guess the screen
>> flashes show BEL handling.
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> :)
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> ATB,
>
> Mark.
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