[edk2-devel] VT100 terminal for UEFI shell

[edk2-devel] VT100 terminal for UEFI shell

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

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

[Andrew Fish via groups.io]

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> On Sep 7, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

These are the supported consoles [1]

EFI_GUID  *mTerminalType[] = {
  &gEfiPcAnsiGuid,
  &gEfiVT100Guid,
  &gEfiVT100PlusGuid,
  &gEfiVTUTF8Guid,
  &gEfiTtyTermGuid,
  &gEdkiiLinuxTermGuid,
  &gEdkiiXtermR6Guid,
  &gEdkiiVT400Guid,
  &gEdkiiSCOTermGuid
};

CHAR16  *mSerialConsoleNames[] = {
  L"PC-ANSI Serial Console",
  L"VT-100 Serial Console",
  L"VT-100+ Serial Console",
  L"VT-UTF8 Serial Console",
  L"Tty Terminal Serial Console",
  L"Linux Terminal Serial Console",
  L"Xterm R6 Serial Console",
  L"VT-400 Serial Console",
  L"SCO Terminal Serial Console"
};

I think the OVMF default is coming from here [2]
VENDOR_DEVICE_PATH    gTerminalTypeDeviceNode    = gVtUtf8Terminal;

If you look up gVtUtf8Terminal you see [3]
#define gVtUtf8Terminal \
  { \
    { \
      MESSAGING_DEVICE_PATH, \
      MSG_VENDOR_DP, \
      { \
        (UINT8) (sizeof (VENDOR_DEVICE_PATH)), \
        (UINT8) ((sizeof (VENDOR_DEVICE_PATH)) >> 8) \
      } \
    }, \
    DEVICE_PATH_MESSAGING_VT_UTF8 \
  }

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]

[1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdeModulePkg/Universal/Console/TerminalDxe/Terminal.c#L24
[2] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/PlatformData.c#L50
[3] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/OvmfPkg/Library/PlatformBootManagerLib/BdsPlatform.h#L129
[4] https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/03_Boot_Manager.html#globally-defined-variables

Thanks,

Andrew Fish

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

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

W dniu 7.09.2023 o 19:40, Andrew (EFI) Fish pisze:
>> On Sep 7, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> 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.


> 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]

Feels like adding alias into ~/.bashrc is easier solution:

alias strip_ansi=" sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' "

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

[Andrew Fish via groups.io]

> On Sep 7, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> W dniu 7.09.2023 o 19:40, Andrew (EFI) Fish pisze:
>>> On Sep 7, 2023, at 8:00 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> 
>> 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]
> 
> Feels like adding alias into ~/.bashrc is easier solution:
> 
> alias strip_ansi=" sed -e 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g' "
> 

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.
> 
> 

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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