Hello! I am using grub together with a serial console, which is not a vt100 terminal. Therefore I could not use the nice menus of vt100, but must use "dumb" instead.
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? I just thought about that beeing nice and I am willing to contribute this code (havent started yet). The basic idea could be: change the "terminal" (or better "serial"?) command to include an option "term" for setting the terminal emulation type (e.g. "serial --term=vt52 --unit=..."). Then io_char.c could read the given terminfo file (compiled format, see term(5)) and use the keys stored there. For easy access, the terminfo file should reside on the root partition (e.g. "/boot/grub/terminfo/v/vt52"). The user could decide to place the whole terminfo database there, or just the one file he uses. What do you think? Would you accept such a patch? Till -- +-------+-------------------------------------------------------------+ | | dr. tilmann bubeck reinform medien- und | | rein | informationstechnologie AG | | form | cell.: +49 (172) 8 84 29 72 koenigstrasse 80 | | AG | fax : +49 (711) 7 22 77 34 70173 stuttgart / germany | | | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.reinform.de | +-------+----------------------------------------------(in gruendung)-+ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
