From: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coresystems.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: BIOS like screen for uboot
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:25:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD4BC8A.7060502@coresystems.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=OBTyCqTLhLjzp04714cVzF+GEm0pALiu50Z8S@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/1/10 4:36 AM, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Hi,
> We have a customer request that we need to create a BIOS like
> screens for uboot.
>
> For this we have cross compiled curses library under uboot but have
> been getting error in
> linking phase we have expected.
>
> The major effort is to get termcap database into uboot.
Hm.. I hate patronizing people, but are you sure you (or your customers)
want that? BIOS screens are by far the most useless user interface around.
However, I think you have several options.
One, for sure, is the menu command as Robert suggested.
If you really want to go for a curses style interface I suggest that you
look at "libpayload" which is a library containing slimmed down
functions for a lot of things, including a pretty small curses
implementation that works on framebuffers, text consoles and serial
consoles. It's released under a BSD style license.
Check out http://www.coreboot.org/Libpayload
The last option might be to boot a Linux kernel and use real userland
ncurses, if you really need to (i.e. if you want i18n stuff, too). It is
also the most bloated option.
HTH
Stefan
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-01 11:36 Kallol Biswas
2010-11-05 9:58 ` Robert Schwebel
2010-11-06 2:25 ` Stefan Reinauer [this message]
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