Re: Console debugging wishlist was: Re: oops pauser.

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>> > (it is hard to understand that with 128MB+ graphic cards and 512+MB
>> > computers the scroll back must be still so short...)
>> 
>> The VGA scrollback buffer is limited by the text area of the video RAM.
>> The text area is in the DOS memory at 0xB800 (or 0xB000) and extends
>> 32 KB (or in case of MDA, 4 KB). Each character will use 2 Bytes.
>> Therefore you can store up to 16,000 characters or 4 pages of text.
>
>It was a rhetorical question.
>
And I assumed that scrollback was stored in some regular kmalloc()ed page(s).


Jan Engelhardt
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