Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932122AbXJFA0s (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:26:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754252AbXJFA0k (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:26:40 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:33741 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756170AbXJFA0j (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 20:26:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 02:26:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Krzysztof Halasa cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 699 Lines: 23 On Oct 6 2007 02:23, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>Not convinced WRT ASCII color codes, though. ASCII doesn't contain >>codes for changing colors. Perhaps some specific "extended ASCII"? > >Start up QBasic, issue > COLOR 1 >=> blue. > >Apply said patch, issue > vt.printk_color=0x01 >=> you get what? > >So! :) What we see here might not be "ASCII", but "VGA-specific color values". It's just that I call it ASCII since it's the mirrored opposite of ANSI. - 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/