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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">iPXE> up A down B right C left D</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Alex Davies [mailto:alex@davz.net]
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<b>Sent:</b> 11 April 2014 23:18<br>
<b>To:</b> Alex Davies<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken</span></p>
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From: <b>Peter Pickford</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@netremedies.ca">peter@netremedies.ca</a>><br>
Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:48 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken<br>
To: Alex Davies <<a href="mailto:alex@davz.net">alex@davz.net</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you exit the menu and got to the ipxe command line what do you get when you press the arrow keys?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 9 April 2014 03:41, Alex Davies <<a href="mailto:alex@davz.net" target="_blank">alex@davz.net</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had the same problem using SOL on Dell hardware.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I tried both your patch Michael and the divide by two suggested at the top of this thread, without joy.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interestingly, pressing the arrow key does stop the countdown timer, but the menu selector does not move, so iPXE is getting something. What debug flag should I enable to see what it is getting?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The menu is working nicely with color and if I connect to the 'full console' via the DRAC, and move the arrow key, the SOL menu refreshes correctly.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Michael Brown <<a href="mailto:mcb30@ipxe.org" target="_blank">mcb30@ipxe.org</a>> wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The arrow keys would not work in my ipxe serial console.<br>
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The following seems to fix it but causes a busy wait while reading<br>
escape sequences.</p>
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Arrow keys over serial works for me. Could you try the attached (untested) patch, which preserves the cpu_nap() while changing the ordering of events such that a keypress arriving during the cpu_nap() will be detected even if the timeout has expired?<br>
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