Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-22 Thread Andrew Fish via groups.io
> On Mar 22, 2021, at 11:31 AM, Nate DeSimone > wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > I tested VT_UTF8 on the macOs Terminal software and I can confirm that > VT_UTF8 renders nicely. See the attached screenshot. > Nate, Yes it is close to VT_UTF8, but not quite the same. I was looking back through t

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-17 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/17/21 00:25, Desimone, Nathaniel L wrote: > The UEFI spec doesn't read on this at all, even though it describes > VT100 and VT100+ as separate modes... it doesn't say how they differ. > I agree with you that it seems reasonable for VT100 to keep character > output to strict ASCII only... tha

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-17 Thread Andrew Fish via groups.io
If we are mentioning terminal types the default terminal type on a Mac is xterm-256color. So that is going to be the default when people run OVMF on a Mac. So it would be nice if we can add that. I can help out with anything xterm-256color related. Thanks, Andrew Fish > On Mar 16, 2021, at 8

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-17 Thread Leif Lindholm
+Roy (now at Marvell) / Leif (now at Qualcomm) On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 16:23:45 +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Hi Nate, > > (adding Leif and Ard) > > On 03/13/21 03:52, Desimone, Nathaniel L wrote: > > I've created a new wiki page for this task with all the information I > > have gathered thu

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-16 Thread Nate DeSimone
Hi Laszlo, > -Original Message- > From: disc...@edk2.groups.io On Behalf Of > Laszlo Ersek > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 8:24 AM > To: Desimone, Nathaniel L > Cc: disc...@edk2.groups.io; cadenkli...@gmail.com; edk2-devel-groups-io > ; Ard Biesheuvel (TianoCore) > ; Leif Lindholm (Nuvia

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-16 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Nate, (adding Leif and Ard) On 03/13/21 03:52, Desimone, Nathaniel L wrote: > I've created a new wiki page for this task with all the information I > have gathered thus far. I've done some more experimentation and found > that there are several newer terminal emulators that don't support > DEC

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-12 Thread Nate DeSimone
I've created a new wiki page for this task with all the information I have gathered thus far. I've done some more experimentation and found that there are several newer terminal emulators that don't support DEC Special Graphics so I've reduced the number of modes where DEC Special Graphics shoul

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-12 Thread Nate DeSimone
Hi Laszlo, > -Original Message- > From: disc...@edk2.groups.io On Behalf Of > Laszlo Ersek > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 10:51 AM > To: Desimone, Nathaniel L ; > cadenkli...@gmail.com > Cc: disc...@edk2.groups.io; devel@edk2.groups.io > Subject: Re: [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code I

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-12 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 03/12/21 06:45, Desimone, Nathaniel L wrote: > Now, here is the second bug. That BIOS setup menu page that OVMF has > for configuring the serial port has a field for setting the terminal > type. But, changing the value in that field doesn't actually change > the configuration data that is sent

Re: [edk2-devel] [edk2-discuss] Google Summer of Code Interested Student

2021-03-11 Thread Nate DeSimone
Hi Caden, Great to meet you and welcome to the TianoCore project! Glad you hear you are interested! Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to you, researching the topics you are interested in ended up being somewhat involved 😊. I went back and did some investigation of current state of the t