<div dir="ltr">Last week or so, and to set the background color 80x25 characters are sent, and every time the menu bar moves 80x2 characters are sent. I Also have not been able to get serial arrows working, but I'll recompile with the latest head later today. (I've spent the last little while netbooting old power macs so I don't have a intel box on the bench at the moment)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Michael Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcb30@ipxe.org" target="_blank">mcb30@ipxe.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On 22/04/14 17:32, Ben Hildred wrote:<br>
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Just thought I would note here that I have noticed that menus are slow<br>
with both serial and video consoles enabled on real hardware, due to<br>
synchronization and no serial optimizations like clear screen. I may<br>
write a fast clear screen patch when this starts bothering me.<br>
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Are you using the current master branch? Using <ESC>[2J to clear the console via serial port was committed back in November:<br>
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<a href="http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/7271b50" target="_blank">http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/<u></u>commitdiff/7271b50</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Michael<br>
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