From: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial console support
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:30:40 +0000 (GMT)
> A command line is best. If menus are required, you can simply ask for
> the appropriate item number or name to be entered.
Okay.
> You can assume CR, LF and BS. Don't assume anything else. In
> particular, don't assume that all the world's a VT100.
I agree. Well, the next question is "What readline-like features do
you want to use?" C-h could be implemented cleanly if the length of
the command-line is <80. Likewise, C-b, C-a, C-k, C-p and so on could
be implemented if you can resist on the overhead.
> There needs to be a way for GRUB to tell the kernel that it boots
> which form of console is active. The choice is essentially between
> keyboard (the default?) and a serial port at a particular IO address:
> it should be quite easy to extend the Multiboot standard to provide
> this information.
I'd like to leave it out at the moment, as Per pointed out that the
current specification was difficult to extend.
Thanks,
Okuji
