[PATCH] ui/ncurses: Periodically refresh display

[Cyril Bur]

On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 09:29 +1000, Stewart Smith wrote:
> 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.
> 

I was wondering the same thing, I figured Sam knew what he was doing,
now that both Sam AND Stewart have come to a consensus, I'm not even
needed here.

Good day!

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