[ipxe-devel] serial arrow keys broken

[Michael Brown]

On 22/04/14 23:24, Ben Hildred wrote:
> starting with my current version:
>
> show version reorts:
> builtin/version:string = 1.0.0+ (2d6d)
> there are some patches applied to the local version

What patches?

> 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,

The absence of colour will be due to the terminal emulation provided by 
whatever you are using to connect to the other end of the serial port. 
For example, if you are using minicom, then you would need to invoke it 
with "minicom -c on" to enable colour output.

Are you seeing the background colour being drawn character by character 
on the VGA output (rather than changing colour as a single block)?  If 
so then something very strange is happening, since that code was removed 
in November.

Michael