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Re: [Xen-devel] rationale behind pygrub with TERM=vt100

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] rationale behind pygrub with TERM=vt100
From: Aron Griffis <aron@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 01:03:46 -0400
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Ian Campbell wrote:  [Tue May 15 2007, 02:06:18AM EDT]
> I think it's because of cset 13540:5f998c3170f7 (Plumb bootloader
> I/O through xenconsole) which meant that there was no sane $TERM to
> be passed into pygrub anymore since you can't know the $TERM of the
> eventual xenconsole client. vt100 is a good low common denominator.

Thanks, that's helpful.  I missed the connection between those
changesets...

Aron

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