Re: [edk2-devel] VT100 terminal for UEFI shell

["Andrew Fish via groups.io" <afish=apple.com@groups.io>]

> On Sep 7, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org> wrote:
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> W dniu 7.09.2023 o 19:40, Andrew (EFI) Fish pisze:
>>> On Sep 7, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
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>>> Is there a way to have VT100 (or any other black/white, non-ANSI) terminal for UEFI Shell?
>>> 
>>> I do many runs of QEMU/sbsa-ref with logging and all those ANSI colour codes only make problems.
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>> Thus we get to the TL;DR part… The console NVRAM variables that point to the UART has a MESSAGING_DEVICE_PATH MSG_VENDOR_DP node after the UART definition that has a UUID (EFI_GUID) that defines the type of terminal emulation to use.
>> The definition of the ConIn and ConOut variables is here [4]
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> Feels like adding alias into ~/.bashrc is easier solution:
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> alias strip_ansi=" sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' "
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Well like everything  the terminal default is optimized for the personal preference of who ever did OVMF port. 

> EDK2 code feels like ancient Perl to me too often. Someone wrote it, everyone uses it, hard to find someone who know why it is that way.
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Feel free to ask I’ll probably be 24 years into at some point soon or maybe already I kind of forgot when I started.  I was around for most of the big picture stuff so that is one of the reasons I answer these general questions on the list.

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

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