Hello!
> 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", ...)
However, this would change meaning of numbers entered at the video mode
prompt (with vga=ask), which doesn't look good.
Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <[email protected]> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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