Re: Colored kernel messages on serial console

On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 14:07:12 +0200, Timo Buhrmester wrote:

> > why do you feel you need an external approval for scratching your
> > own itch?
> What makes you believe I was looking for approval?  I asked two
> questions and I asked each for a very specific purpose.
> 
> a) How insane this is, in order to find out whether what I'm doing might
> have unexpected consequences that I don't see due to not diving into
> NetBSD's code every day.
> 
> b) Whether NetBSD would be interested if it was cleanly done, because
> god forbid people might care about contributing upstream.  That has
> nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with whether I just
> run my patch, or invest time into a more general way.  Which has long
> since and pretty unanimously been answered already.
> 
> So I wonder why you felt the need to write this reply, and I apoplogize
> for cluttering up your punch cards.

Interesting...

First you dismissively summarize Brett's reply made in good faith as
"long color rant that I'm all too used to".  (As an aside, I can
relate to his reply b/c I also have mild deuteranomaly and fail
Ishihara test.  IIRC, about 1 in 8 males has _some_ form of color
vision anomaly).

Then you misinterpret my reply that was honestly meant as an
encouragement (b/c obviosly most people in this thread (and Thor's
DECwriter) were not very enthusiastic about more colors in console).
I'm sorry I failed to make myself clear enough.  You obviously neither
need, nor want my encouragement (or anyone's approval) and I apologize
for presuming otherwise.

I guess I should stop replying to this thread lest I create even more
confusion.

Don't worry, my punch cards have seen worse.

-uwe