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Re: Colored kernel messages on serial console



> On Jul 27, 2026, at 10:22 AM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> This is a bad idea; not every terminal is ANSI-compatible.  Furthermore,
> it likely will foul up any curses programs on the console even more than
> kernel printout already does.

Yah, honestly, I don’t even really like the green text that we use on wscons.  I personally think the console output should be as simple as possible (I’m not not a huge fan of the timestamps, but I do acknolwedge that they can be useful).

-- thorpej



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