From: Christoph Plattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Grub over serial line - status ! (I did a test version, itruns !)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:12:18 +0200
> What should grub do, if no config file (menu.lst) is present ?
> (Default)
GRUB shouldn't use serial console.
> Why do you think, the idea with the asterisk (or whatever)
> is not useful. This is realy a minor change in the menu code
> and nearly no change for the user. But the serial performane
> is much increased.
I don't like to have two different interfaces for a single purpose.
Anyway, if you can move a cursor to anywhere you like, the terminal
should support inversion as well.
> What terminal types have to be supported. I used the standard Linux
> console setup and use a front-end-terminal (a 20-liner, setting
> console to raw mode and sleeping on select, waiting for a character over
> the serial line or a character from the console to send to each other).
Perhaps the ideal is to support as many terminals as possible, but I
don't think we have to support so many terminals. At least "dumb" and
"ansi" should be supported, because every terminals works as a "dumb"
terminal and most fancy terminals support ANSI-compliant escape
sequences. It is preferable to support ANSI-style color functions as
well, but not necessary.
Okuji
