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From: Joel Fernandes <joelf@ti.com>
To: Jonathan Liu <net147@gmail.com>,
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] serial-getty service: Add linux as default TERM
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 15:32:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5366A3EE.1040707@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <536613A5.3020003@gmail.com>

On 05/04/2014 05:17 AM, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> On 4/05/2014 9:36 AM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>> In poky with systemd enabled, vt102 is selected for getty
>> causing user to experience a very crappy terminal. Default
>> TERM to linux.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelf@ti.com>
>> ---
>> v2: Dropped PR bump
>>
>>   .../systemd-serialgetty/serial-getty@.service      |    1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git
>> a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty/serial-getty@.service
>> b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty/serial-getty@.service
>> index 865de34..eb2280b 100644
>> --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty/serial-getty@.service
>> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd-serialgetty/serial-getty@.service
>> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Before=getty.target
>>   IgnoreOnIsolate=yes
>>     [Service]
>> +Environment="TERM=linux"
>>   ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --keep-baud %I @BAUDRATE@ $TERM
>>   Type=idle
>>   Restart=always
> I would prefer:
> Environment="TERM=xterm"
> ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -8 --keep-baud %I @BAUDRATE@ $TERM
> 
> "xterm" as it is much more widely supported than "linux". Also, PuTTY
> uses "xterm" by default.
> -8 to assume the tty is 8-bit clean and disable parity detection. I have
> had some issues where parity sometimes gets enabled even though the
> serial line is 8-bit clean and I end up with garbage on the serial
> terminal.

Fair enough, I tested and it works fine for me. Will submit a patch.

-Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-04 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-03 23:36 [PATCH v2] serial-getty service: Add linux as default TERM Joel Fernandes
2014-05-04 10:17 ` Jonathan Liu
2014-05-04 20:32   ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2014-05-05  2:31   ` Khem Raj
2014-05-05  2:37     ` Joel Fernandes
2014-05-05  2:51       ` Joel Fernandes
2014-05-05  3:02         ` Khem Raj
2014-05-05 15:31           ` Joel Fernandes

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