[ipxe-devel] vesafb questions/suggestions

[Michael Brown]

On 20/01/14 19:25, Oliver Rath wrote:
> Hi Michael"!
>> Yes, this is planned.  Probably using "--top", "--bottom", "--left"
>> and "--right" options to the "console" command to specify margins for
>> the text area.  (This in turn will mean renaming "--bpp" to "--depth";
>> I'm allowed to do this since the documentation hasn't been written yet!)
>
> What mesurement is this? Pixel or textlines? I.e. i want to start 12
> text-lines deeper, do i say
>
> console -x 1400 -y 1050 --top 12 --picture
> http://192.168.97.254/pictures/cn.pn

It's measured in pixels.  Documentation is now at

   http://ipxe.org/cmd/console

and I've updated it to mention that all distances are in pixels.

Michael