Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello, to cover all aspects of the TERM-I/O stuff, also the tty (in ourcase the serial) flow control has to be added. XON/OFF or even RTS/CTS flow control (XON/OFF is really missed by me, perhaps I will add it, if I have a good idea to implement this in polling mode !). But if we really think

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
--- Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, to cover all aspects of the TERM-I/O stuff, also the tty (in ourcase the serial) flow control has to be added. XON/OFF or even RTS/CTS flow control (XON/OFF is really missed by me, perhaps I will add it, if I have a good idea to

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Alex Thiel
On Monday 29 April 2002 13:49, Dr. Tilmann Bubeck wrote: --- Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, to cover all aspects of the TERM-I/O stuff, also the tty (in ourcase the serial) flow control has to be added. XON/OFF or even RTS/CTS flow control (XON/OFF is really

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Mario Klebsch
Hi everybody! Am Montag den, 29. April 2002, um 02:49, schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji: At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:50:56 +0200, Dr.Tilmann Bubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you (the project coordinators) interested in getting a patch for grub to read terminfo files on harddisk, therefore

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:25:04 -0700 (PDT), Dr. Tilmann Bubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it will not change the code much. The most obvious change would be, that all your hardcoded escape strings, like \e%dJ will be replaced by something link cursordown(X). This is a new function which will get

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Mario Klebsch
Am Montag den, 29. April 2002, um 20:13, schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji: At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 22:25:04 -0700 (PDT), Dr. Tilmann Bubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it will not change the code much. The most obvious change would be, that all your hardcoded escape strings, like \e%dJ will be

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Christoph Plattner
This is my opinion, too !! If we really add here an extension, then my favourite is a `stty' command (common for all TTY including virtual VGA/keyboard) with (of course) a reduced functionality. But, again, may be it is an overhead (or better overkill) at all ... With friendly regards

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-29 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
OK, I will start with this and release a patch. Then we could see, if it is too much overhead. I will try to keep the whole thing simple. Till --- Christoph Plattner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my opinion, too !! If we really add here an extension, then my favourite is a `stty'

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-28 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:50:56 +0200, Dr.Tilmann Bubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you (the project coordinators) interested in getting a patch for grub to read terminfo files on harddisk, therefore enabling it to use any terminal emulation? If that could make the code more spaghetti-like, I

Re: need terminfo for serial console?

2002-04-28 Thread Dr. Tilmann Bubeck
--- Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:50:56 +0200, Dr.Tilmann Bubeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you (the project coordinators) interested in getting a patch for grub to read terminfo files on harddisk, therefore enabling it to use any terminal