Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261598AbVETV2i (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 17:28:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261597AbVETV2h (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 17:28:37 -0400 Received: from alog0213.analogic.com ([208.224.220.228]:59085 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261596AbVETV2C (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2005 17:28:02 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:27:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Jon Smirl cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Screen regen buffer at 0x00b8000 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910505201421cf36902@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <9e4733910505201421cf36902@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 31 On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 5/20/05, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> Yes, and I didn't want to. However a customer wants some status to >> be always displayed in the upper-right-hand corner of a 4x5 LCD >> with a tiny CPU board. > > The console implements a tiny terminal emulator. Does the emulator > implement the escape sequence for locking an unscrollable line at the > top of the screen? If so lock the line, write your info there, and the > rest of the display will work like normal. > > -- > Jon Smirl > jonsmirl@gmail.com > I'll experiment. I know that real VT100s can set a scrolling region so I could set a scrolling region from line 2 to 25 if it works. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11.9 on an i686 machine (5554.17 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/