[bug #28628] Concurrent console and serial access

[Gerald Villemure]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?28628>

                 Summary: Concurrent console and serial access
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: gvillemure
            Submitted on: Sat 16 Jan 2010 04:23:19 AM GMT
                Category: Terminal
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 1.97
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Historically this option has always worked:
   terminal --dumb --timeout=10 console serial

But with the new version of GRUB it not longer seems to work.

I tried doing something like this to no avail:

  terminal_input serial
  terminal_output serial
  if sleep -i -v 10
    terminal_input console
    terminal_output console
  fi

In short the inability to accommodate console and serial port access in the
same config is a show stopper for me.

One cannot tell in advance that console will NEVER be needed nor can one say
that Serial will never be used.  Having the option to have both running is a
required feature in my book.

Gérald




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