Re: install/56185: Kernel notifications break installation

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/56185; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/56185: Kernel notifications break installation
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 03:12:58 +0000

 On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:15:02PM +0000, Andrei M. wrote:
  >  Seeing kernel messages is an important thing indeed, but the way it's
  >  "done" in this case goes against all principles of visual interface
  >  design.
 
 That's because they're just getting printed to the screen over top of
 the user interface :-|
 
  >  Isn't it possible to split the sysinst window into two, showing the
  >  kernel output f.ex. in the bottom window and the installation stuff in
  >  the top one? (like a stripped down version of 'screen'?)
 
 Probably, yes. This would require sysinst to open a pty and capture
 the kernel messages to it, because of how that works, and apparently
 there's already code doing some of that for other reasons that it
 would need to cooperate with.
 
 good idea, though :-)
 
 (Also, I've long wanted the console to work like the console in the
 origianl Quake and some other games like that, where messages print in
 the corner and disappear by default but you can summon them back with
 a hotkey... but this is a Big Deal, which is why I've been wanting it
 for >20 years and not doing it)
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost