[ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

[Ben Hildred]

Just thought I would note here that I have noticed that menus are slow with
both serial and video consoles enabled on real hardware, due to
synchronization and no serial optimizations like clear screen. I may write
a fast clear screen patch when this starts bothering me.


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:

> On 22/04/14 14:30, Peter Pickford wrote:
>
>> I see  double characters when using kvm serial with fifos enabled.
>> Perhaps kvm serial emulation don't work too well with some options.
>>
>
> Interesting.  I tested KVM and don't get double characters.
>
>
>  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 :)
>>
>
> Also not a problem I see here.  This may be dependent on the KVM version.
>
> I have noticed that the BIOS console has been noticeably slower since
> upgrading QEMU/KVM a couple of months ago.  I'm pretty sure this isn't an
> iPXE-specific problem, since the BIOS's own startup banner also prints with
> a noticeable teletype effect.
>
>
> Michael
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