Re: Screen regen buffer at 0x00b8000

From: Jon Smirl
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 16:22:07 EST


On 5/20/05, Richard B. Johnson <linux-os@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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