Re: Kernel 'vga=' parameter wierdness

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> > You're right.  I thought '0164' was octal - 0 prefix.
>> >
>> Quite misleading. This should be fixed.
>
>What fix do you propose?
>
That /^0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+$/ is required to interpret $_ as a hexadecimal 
number, that /^0[0-7]+$/ is required to interpret it as an octal,
and everything else for a normal decimal number.
IOW, using strtol(my_vga_string, NULL, 0) everywhere (GRUB, as well as the 
"vga selector" in the kernel).
And making sure the vga selector (i.e. when booting with 
vga=ask) always prefix numbers with 0x when they are supposed to be in 
hexadecimal, i.e. e.g.
  for(i=0; ...) 
      printf("%#x   %dx%d\n", i, vga_modes[i].width, vga_modes[i].height);
instead of currently
      printf("%x    %dx%d\n", ...)



Jan Engelhardt
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