[coreboot] filo serial console problems
Patrick Georgi
patrick at georgi-clan.de
Tue Oct 21 16:31:25 CEST 2008
Jordan Crouse schrieb:
> On 20/10/08 17:16 -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
>
>> It looks like filo has some problems with serial console.
>>
>> 1. left arrow: reboots the system
>>
>
> Lots of left arrows - presumably any escape related key would be
> affected. This has been reported before, but it doesn't seem to
> break in qemu, only on real hardware.
>
The attached patch limits the amount of characters read for escape
handling to the size of the buffer.
It also changes the recursion to a while loop. A compiler "should"
resolve the tail recursion, but I'd rather be sure.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick.georgi at coresystems.de>
Regards,
Patrick
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