[U-Boot] Curses from u-boot

[U-Boot] Curses from u-boot

[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...

Regards,

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[U-Boot] Curses from u-boot

[Heiko Schocher]

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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DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany

[U-Boot] Curses from u-boot

[Daniel.]

Hi Heiko,

This was exacly what I was searching for. I'll take a look!

Thank you for the reply and best regards,

2016-09-26 1:51 GMT-03:00 Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>:
> 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
> --
> DENX Software Engineering GmbH,      Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk
> HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany



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