[ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

[Alex Davies]

A, B, C and D. Here I pressed the key after each word (e.g. “u”, “p”, <up
arrow”):



iPXE> up A down B right C left D

up: command not found


The graphical console looked like the screenshot below when I entered the
keys via SOL:






On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Peter Pickford <peter at netremedies.ca>wrote:

> If you exit the menu and got to the ipxe command line what do you get when
> you press the arrow keys?
>
>
> On 9 April 2014 03:41, Alex Davies <alex at davz.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We had the same problem using SOL on Dell hardware.
>>
>> I tried both your patch Michael and the divide by two suggested at the
>> top of this thread, without joy.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Alex
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/03/14 08:36, Peter Pickford wrote:
>>>
>>>> The arrow keys would not work in my ipxe serial console.
>>>>
>>>> The following seems to fix it but causes a busy wait while reading
>>>> escape sequences.
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Davies
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