Re: Kernel 'vga=' parameter wierdness

[Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>]

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   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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