Re: [Etherboot-developers] ANSI/GFX vs SERIAL/DUAL consoles

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>Users should be able to choose dual console "safely", - no ANSI gunk in
>the wrong place - without needing to tweak the compilation image or
>server configuration for one or other. So, as Etherboot interprets the
>GFX/ANSI gunk, the Right Thing is to *always* interpret the ANSI,
>generate output only for the video, and ignore it for the serial line,
>or at least use minimal formatting. Clearing the video screen might
>produce no more than a newline or page break in the serial output so

Yes, I'd say that's an excellent goal.

>that the following text is neat. While I'm about it, I also want to
>suppress the "rotating line" progress indicator. Yes, it's cute, it's
>traditional, but a row of dots does the job, and doesn't clog up log

And a row of dots is probably more useful in giving an idea of progress.

>files with non-printable gunk. For completeness, it would be great to
>get mknbi and loader.S messages down the serial as well.

A good goal, but not so important as there are very few messages from
this stage.

Go for it.