Re: x86 serial support

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Sunday 04 September 2005 02:59 am, Omniflux wrote:
> Option 'a' is certainly the easiest, but how do I choose which terminals
> to support? How do I test them?

Having a static table (for all terminals) is clearly nonsense for tparm.c, 
since the purpose of this file is to interpret a terminfo file. If we embed 
binary code, there is no reason to have such interpretation code.

> Option 'b', choosing which terminals and testing them is no longer my
> problem, but this moves all the burden onto the user.

I think you know this, but GRUB Legacy uses this way. For now, I think this is 
the best way, since most terminals are vt100-compatible, and the user does 
not have to do anything in this case.

> Option 'c', problems as listed above.

For me, this sounds overkill.

Okuji