[ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

[Peter Pickford]

I see  double characters when using kvm serial with fifos enabled. Perhaps
kvm serial emulation don't work too well with some options.

kvm serial seems distractingly slow in ipxe in polling mode-  type a char
and wait sort of slow - reminds me of 300 baud Teletype or worse, but it
works :)

I also saw problems with arch install in kvm over serial perhaps grub has
the same issues though I don't know if its some sort of config problem as
it it may be outputting to two console or some such and combining the
output hence the two characters.

I will test a clean build later and let you know

The cpu and  power usage  is quite important in virtual environments as it
can use resources that other vms could benefit from if they boot to an ipxe
screen and just sit there using cpu and power etc


On 22 April 2014 06:05, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 17/04/14 15:24, Peter Pickford wrote:
>
>> values to tried all seem to work
>> 0x01 enable fifos only (this is probably enough)
>>
>
> I've pushed a change with the minimal fix of just enabling the FIFOs:
>
>   http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/d644ad4
>
> Please let me know if there are still problems with escape sequences via
> the serial port.
>
> Michael
>
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