Re: Screen regen buffer at 0x00b8000

["Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Jon Smirl wrote:

> On 5/20/05, Richard B. Johnson <linux-os@analogic.com> 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.
>
> -- 
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl@gmail.com
>

I'll experiment. I know that real VT100s can set a scrolling region
so I could set a scrolling region from line 2 to 25 if it works.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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