Re: [ipxe-devel] login/menu commands and serial console?

2015-07-21 Thread Michael Brown
On 21/07/15 18:35, Ben Hildred wrote: I hit a similar problem, and I have been toying with the idea of adding support for basic ansi escapes to iPXE and rewriting the full screen parts to use it (menu, login, and config) iPXE already uses ANSI escape sequences internally for all console I/O, w

Re: [ipxe-devel] login/menu commands and serial console?

2015-07-21 Thread Ben Hildred
I hit a similar problem, and I have been toying with the idea of adding support for basic ansi escapes to iPXE and rewriting the full screen parts to use it (menu, login, and config) to test feasibility and code size but due to other projects I have not gone farther than that. Also remember that iP

[ipxe-devel] login/menu commands and serial console?

2015-07-21 Thread Sven Dreyer
Hi list, I normally use iPXE on a VGA screen (BIOS mode). But I also own some PC Engines ALIX / APU boards. Those do not have a VGA part, so I need to use the serial port. When using "login" command, it looks a bit weird, because everytime I type a character, the whole line is repeated. Typi