From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Schocher Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 06:51:26 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Curses from u-boot In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <57E8A94E.6020603@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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