Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 5/7] fbcon: Fix setup boot optionsof fbcon

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> In the unlikely case of > 10 framebuffers, one can use the characters after
> '9', namely:
>
> ':' = 10
> ';' = 11
> '<' = 12
> '=' = 13
> '>' = 14
> '?' = 15
> '@' = 16
> 'A' = 17
> 'B' = 18
> 'C' = 19
> (and so on until 31, which is the maximum framebuffers allowed)

To avoid problems with the special characters, what about using 0-9 and a-v
instead?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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