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From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: x86 serial support
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:01:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874q9vm9ek.fsf@student.han.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F94D30.7030204@omniflux.com> (omniflux+lists@omniflux.com's message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:41:20 -0600")

Omniflux <omniflux+lists@omniflux.com> writes:

Hi Omniflux,

> It's been a few months, but here are some updated patches.
>
> The terminfo patch probably needs to be applied first.

Thanks for your new patch! :)

>> BTW, do you have any suggestion about the so-called "dumb terminal"? 
>> Because supporting dumb terminal is horrible, I hesitate to support it 
>> in GRUB 2, if there is no clean way to do it.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to disable the menu and replace clear
> screen with a newline, which is what Legacy does IIRC.

Why can't we use a menu?  Is it really that slow to update the menu
over a serial console?

I'll review your patch ASAP.

Thanks,
Marco




  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-12 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-21 12:38 x86 serial support Omniflux
2005-03-02 21:33 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-10  0:41   ` Omniflux
2005-08-12 10:51     ` Vladimir Serbinenko
2005-08-12 16:01     ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2005-08-12 20:17       ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-08-12 22:19         ` Douglas Wade Needham
2005-08-12 22:18       ` Omniflux
2005-08-14 13:03         ` Marco Gerards
2005-08-14 14:54           ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-09-03 17:08     ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-09-03 23:12       ` Marco Gerards
2005-09-11 19:46         ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2005-09-04  0:59       ` Omniflux
2005-09-11 19:52         ` Yoshinori K. Okuji

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