From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E3c6y-0007VF-Jc for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:10:24 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3c6n-0007N0-56 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:10:13 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E3c6e-0007JV-Rv for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:10:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3c6a-0007Co-LP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:10:00 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E3cFE-00083B-Kj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:18:56 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847FA82FE for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:01:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22071-04 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5574A8273 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AD4C045 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:01:39 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4219D62D.3000109@omniflux.com> <200503022233.18661.okuji@enbug.org> <42F94D30.7030204@omniflux.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:01:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <42F94D30.7030204@omniflux.com> (omniflux+lists@omniflux.com's message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:41:20 -0600") Message-ID: <874q9vm9ek.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: x86 serial support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:10:20 -0000 Omniflux 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