On 02/26/14 17:16, Andrew Fish wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2014, at 7:39 AM, Brian J. Johnson <bjohn...@sgi.com> wrote: > >> On 02/25/2014 04:04 PM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> The >>> >>> CSI Ps ; Ps ; Ps t >>> >>> escape sequence serves for window manipulation. We can use the >>> >>> CSI 8 ; <rows> ; <columns> t >>> >>> sequence to adapt eg. the xterm window size to the selected console mode. >>> >> >> I'd suggest *not* committing this patch, or at least leaving the >> functionality disabled (PCD) by default. If I remember correctly, we >> (SGI) tried this internally a number of years ago. The feedback from >> early users was that resizing people's terminal windows on them is very >> annoying, and A Really Bad Idea. They asked us to remove it >> immediately. I'm sure it's a matter of opinion, but for our users at >> least, the opinion was pretty clear-cut. >> > > Same thing happened for us. For folks that were more interested in > watching the DEBUG prints at boot time, the resize was annoying. For > people trying to use the serial terminal in the shell it was useful.
(Yes, mixing debug output and forms on serial is not optimal. Per default OVMF sends DEBUGs to the qemu debug port (redirected to a separate host file on the qemu command line), and dedicates the serial port to interactive use.) Thanks Laszlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
