Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Progress on Sapphire

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Dominik Kubla <dom...@un...>:
> > Dominik, am I correct in believing these are all of the functional
> > changes in the emulation?
> 
> Looks like it. BTW i would prefer that you use the correct CSI instead
> of \E[, because \E[ is only the 7bit translation of the correct C1 control
> code.  Of coures you would have to define the term "Control Sequence
> Introducer" before using it.  And the page should mention how a valid
> ESCape and control has to look like.

console_codes(4) already covers this.  I'll make sure I conform.

> > And, if I have it right, you didn't mess with anything that was
> > 
> > (a) before the comment "VT102 emulator"
> > (b) after the end of do_con_trol (except for the ESnormal->ESinit
> > change in do_con_write). 
> 
> I think so, but i am not sure. I am just working on a 2.2.14 patch...

How will this differ from the 2.2.12 patch I just generated?  We may be
unnecessarily duplicating work here...
 
> We should also patch the MAINTAINERS file, shouldn't we?

Yes, but how we do that exactly will depend on how we do our release
packaging (which is James's problem).

BTW, in the revised console_codes(4) page, I refer to the existing
console as `version 1'.  You and I are working on `version 2', emulation
patches only.  Versions 3 and up will be the big rewrite.
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