From: Christoph Plattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dumb terminal support
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:19:10 +0200
> Further we have a problem concerning flow control on the serial line.
> If a user passes a complete string to GRUB (full speed), then
> GRUB looses character. I recognized this, when I use CUT and PASTE
> with the mouse on the xterm window running a terminal emulation.
Perhaps GRUB should have its own input buffer and read data to the
buffer as much as possible whenever checkkey and getkey are
called. This could be a temporary solution, until we implement an
interrupt-driven serial driver (which is quite difficult in the
current design of GRUB).
Okuji
