Re: Screen regen buffer at 0x00b8000

[James Simmons]

> > Yes, and I didn't want to. However a customer wants some status to
> > be always displayed in the upper-right-hand corner of a 4x5 LCD
> > with a tiny CPU board.
> 
> The console implements a tiny terminal emulator. Does the emulator
> implement the escape sequence for locking an unscrollable line at the
> top of the screen? If so lock the line, write your info there, and the
> rest of the display will work like normal.

Yes it does. This is how the penguin is displayed without scrolling in the 
framebuffer console.

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