Re: need terminfo for serial console?

[Mario Klebsch]

Hi everybody!

Am Montag den, 29. April 2002, um 02:49, schrieb Yoshinori K. Okuji:

> At Sun, 28 Apr 2002 20:50:56 +0200,
> Dr.Tilmann Bubeck <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Are you (the project coordinators) interested in getting a patch for 
> > grub
> > to read terminfo files on harddisk, therefore enabling it to use any
> > terminal emulation?
>
> If that could make the code more spaghetti-like, I wouldn't be
> interested in that. Also, I wonder how many people would benefit from
> that.

I would suggest to not add code to read termcap but to add a command for 
menu.lst, which can set the control sequences to control a terminal 
attached. It would give the functionality needed to everybody using a 
non standard terminal without adding too much overhead to grub.

73, Mario