Re: x86 serial support

[Marco Gerards]

Omniflux <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Omniflux,

> It's been a few months, but here are some updated patches.
>
> The terminfo patch probably needs to be applied first.

Thanks for your new patch! :)

>> BTW, do you have any suggestion about the so-called "dumb terminal"? 
>> Because supporting dumb terminal is horrible, I hesitate to support it 
>> in GRUB 2, if there is no clean way to do it.
>
> The only thing I can think of is to disable the menu and replace clear
> screen with a newline, which is what Legacy does IIRC.

Why can't we use a menu?  Is it really that slow to update the menu
over a serial console?

I'll review your patch ASAP.

Thanks,
Marco