From: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Curses from u-boot
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 06:51:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57E8A94E.6020603@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF3SDA4rz2QLHhie9mP0MCz9qKABE_-L9OsVxyu1fDyMYzTpiQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello Daniel,
Am 21.09.2016 um 15:25 schrieb Daniel.:
> Hi everybody, I was wondering what would be the difficult to run some
> curses based menu from u-boot.
>
> I've been search for curses porting and found this:
> http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/ncurses/hackguide.html. The big
> problem here is that u-boot is not a operating system.
>
> The motivation is simple. Would be nice to have boot options presented
> to user as a curses menu, like grub does, wouldn't?
>
> The easy work arround I found here is booting to some initrd with
> curses installed. Then use the user input to configure u-boots
> enviroment so that the next reboot takes that configuration in
> account. What you think? I'm not using anything like this right know
> but I would like to do it in future...
maybe its worth that you look into u-boot:/doc/README.menu and
u-boot:/doc/README.bootmenu
bye,
Heiko
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2016-09-21 13:25 [U-Boot] Curses from u-boot Daniel.
2016-09-26 4:51 ` Heiko Schocher [this message]
2016-09-26 13:36 ` Daniel.
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