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From: "Marcin Juszkiewicz" <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>
To: "Andrew (EFI) Fish" <afish@apple.com>, devel@edk2.groups.io
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] VT100 terminal for UEFI shell
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 21:11:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a92bca46-c8d5-47b0-8b2d-aefad924d1ac@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5AC2A78-572D-409C-9DF1-3AF90DB2F421@apple.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-07 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-07 15:00 [edk2-devel] VT100 terminal for UEFI shell Marcin Juszkiewicz
2023-09-07 17:40 ` Andrew Fish via groups.io
2023-09-07 19:11   ` Marcin Juszkiewicz [this message]
2023-09-07 20:10     ` Andrew Fish via groups.io

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