[PATCH] ui/ncurses: Periodically refresh display

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jul 12 09:29:58 AEST 2017


Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com> writes:
> When connecting to IPMI or serial consoles quite often the user must hit
> a key or exit and restart petitboot-nc to cause it to appear. This
> occurs when the user connects after petitboot-nc has drawn the current
> screen. This can be a little confusing to users, especially in text
> screens where keys such as 'Enter' won't have an affect.
> To add some user friendliness create a timer callback that every five
> seconds re-draws the current screen automatically.

After having done the math on how slow I've seen some IPMI SoL
implementations, I think this should end up being fine, and even still
usable on effectively 9600bps with the worst case scenario of drawing.

Acked-by: Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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