[ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

Tue Apr 22 23:13:32 UTC 2014

Just done a git pull and rebuild

no patches only
#define       CONSOLE_SERIAL
in config/local/console.h

This is what I get on kvm with serial console

http://pastie.org/9101958

virt-manager was use on the client side
[peter at intel-ion ~]$ pacman -Q virt-manager libvirt
virt-manager 1.0.1-1
libvirt 1.2.3-4
on server
[root at station30 ~]# rpm -qa qemu-kvm qemu-img gpxe-roms-qemu libvirt
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64
gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.10.el6.noarch
qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.415.el6_5.8.x86_64
libvirt-0.10.2-29.el6_5.7.x86_64


vm has no video drivers and uses controller virtio  serial and serial 1 as
primary console

ipxe is loaded via gpxe from tftp ipxe.pxe

as you can see double chars

holding down a yes has about a second pause between groups of chars being
output (2-4 at a time)

arrow keys are somewhat working but unreliable

typing aaaaaaaaaa then backarrowing by holding down the arrow key gets
iiPPXXEE>>
 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDaa


Thanks

Peter


On 22 April 2014 15:24, Ben Hildred <42656e at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, I have an intel box on the bench and loaded ipxe that was compiled
> with both serial and video consoles, and note behaviors
>
> starting with my current version:
>
> show version reorts:
> builtin/version:string = 1.0.0+ (2d6d)
> there are some patches applied to the local version
>
> echo ${esc:string}[2J  clears the screen both vga and serial, but on the
> serial it leaves the prompt on the second line (due to trailing newline)
> and on vga it leaves the prompt on the bottom of the screen. fast white on
> black.
>
> the login screen is color on vga; no color, some bold on serial does not
> draw background so fast.
>
> config and menu are color on vga; no color some bold on serial and draw
> the background on both so slow,
>
> arrow keys and paste from serial do not work as documented.
>
> Now grabbing and merging today's git:
> From git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe
>    93acb5d..d644ad4  master     -> origin/master
>
> show version now reports:
> builtin/version:string = 1.0.0+ (e97ca)
>
> Arrow keys now work, but paste only partialy works upto 16 characters are
> ok then garbage.
> All other behavior unchanged.
>
> and  just for completeness, recompiling with today's master:
> builtin/version:string = 1.0.0+ (d644a)
> no other changes, all tests repeated.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
>
>> On 22/04/14 18:07, Ben Hildred wrote:
>>
>>> yep, the machine I have been testing on does not have bios serial
>>> support, and when serial console is compiled in you can watch the cursor
>>> flicker over every character on the screen when changing menus, on both
>>> the serial port and vga. by the way the background is blue. This does
>>> not seem to affect the shell, just the menus.
>>>
>>
>> Over every character including the empty spaces, or just every non-space
>> character?
>>
>> If it's just the non-space characters then that's expected: the output
>> will limit itself to your serial port baud rate and you would need to use a
>> faster baud rate to minimise the visible effects.
>>
>> If it's every character including the spaces, then please try the
>> following:
>>
>>   set esc:hex 1b
>>   echo ${esc:string}[2J
>>   show version
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>
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