[coreboot] excessive whitespace; was: fam10 resource can not allocated.

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Jul 8 03:26:37 CEST 2009


On 08.07.2009 03:06, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> In file dmesg_r4392.log:
>
> line 2079 reads "menu: hda1:/etc/grub.conf"
> line 2080 has 2,000 characters of whitespace followed by text which
> starts with "scanning for"
> [...]
>
> I think all that whitespace is a bug.

Actually, if you think about screen size and grub menu, it is pretty
obvious that it is not a bug. Maybe not extremely efficient, but 2000
characters are exactly what fits on a 80x25 screen, so this is nothing
but clearing the screen by writing spaces to it.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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