scaling? nah, I'd say to just choose at runtime a sane text size (only to avoid using the same pixel size on a 1024x768 as a 5k screen) and set the number of rows and columns to fit the screen. Even if there isn't enough to fill the screen that's fine.
> Seems a bit overkill for something people rarely use.
Okay, but a lot less so than a full GUI with mouse and thousands of colors, like many motherboards have gone to.
The "sane text size" is naturally going to be the 80x25 text mode (720x400) which is what those config screens were originally defined for. Monitors will usually upscale lower resolutions anyway.
I think the rest of the PC industry could use some of the "paint the back of the fence" mentality that apple has; as of right now, many aspects of PCs off of the happy path are ugly as shit
It’s not even that Apple paints the back of the fence. Apple does not have a BIOS or a UEFI or now iBoot screen at all! They made sure not to have a fence at all.
You’re either in macOS or booted in its recovery partition.
> Seems a bit overkill for something people rarely use.
Okay, but a lot less so than a full GUI with mouse and thousands of colors, like many motherboards have gone to.