[ipxe-devel] colored serial output - INT 0x10

[Gene Cumm]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org> wrote:
> On 07/10/14 11:02, Wissam Shoukair wrote:
>>
>> Does iPXE code has any component that might change a color of the serial
>> connection (could it be that the putty output goes black on black?)? can
>> iPXE do that at all (change the serial output’s color)?
>
>
> Yes; iPXE can output arbitrary ANSI escape sequences which can include
> colour change sequences.  For the BIOS (or VESA framebuffer) console, these
> are interpreted by iPXE; for the serial console they are sent verbatim to be
> interpreted by the terminal software on the other end of the link.

If I recall correctly, a VT100 is the most popular terminal to be
emulated and will ignore the color changing escape codes.

>> Which INT 10 services do iPXE use for BIOS Screen Control?
>
>
> All code calling INT 10 should be in
> arch/i386/firmware/pcbios/bios_console.c.  We seem to use:
>
>   INT 10,02 : ANSI CUP
>   INT 10,06 : ANSI ED
>   INT 10,01 : ANSI DECTCEM
>
> and for writing characters to the screen:
>
>   INT 10,08 : read current attribute
>   INT 10,09 : set current attribute
>   INT 10,0e : print character

What's the real goal?

-- 
-Gene