From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Sat Mar 9 01:27:08 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C571531315 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2019 01:27:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: from www.zefox.net (www.zefox.net [50.1.20.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "www.zefox.org", Issuer "www.zefox.org" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E0B995EC0; Sat, 9 Mar 2019 01:27:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: from www.zefox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.zefox.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x291R2ZZ054290 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:27:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: (from fbsd@localhost) by www.zefox.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x291R14k054289; Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:27:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:27:01 -0800 From: bob prohaska To: Warner Losh Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Konstantin Belousov , bob prohaska Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console Message-ID: <20190309012701.GA52286@www.zefox.net> References: <201903071913.x27JDbZR091956@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20190308055313.GB49607@www.zefox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6E0B995EC0 X-Spamd-Bar: ++++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [4.47 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; WWW_DOT_DOMAIN(0.50)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.73)[0.728,0]; IP_SCORE(0.17)[ip: (0.62), ipnet: 50.1.16.0/20(0.31), asn: 7065(-0.02), country: US(-0.07)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[zefox.net]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[cached: www.zefox.net]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.84)[0.843,0]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.84)[0.841,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7065, ipnet:50.1.16.0/20, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_WWW(0.50)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 01:27:09 -0000 On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 06:59:00AM -0800, Warner Losh wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 10:53 PM bob prohaska wrote: > > > The serial console is rather indespensible on an RPI, is there a way > > to configure it to be well-behaved with whatever terminal emulator > > is readily available? > > > > No. Termcap must match the terminal emulator. If it doesn't, then there > will be problems. At best, we could expand termcap with a special entry for > lxterminal if it can't cope with xterm entry. > It looks as if lxterminal on a Pi3 considers itself an xterm. That's to say env on a freshly-opened window reports TERM=xterm. When an RPi goes to single-user and says it's using dumb terminal setting, what is it expecting? Thanks for reading! bob prohaska