Re: [MirageOS-devel] terminal emulation

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 Aug 2015, at 10:24, Hannes Mehnert <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> hackers,
> 
> I wondered if there's something available to act as a terminal emulation
> in a pure MirageOS setting?  I discovered
> https://github.com/djs55/ocaml-vnc (but it is unclear to me whether it
> is working [and to what extend], supposed to be the MirageOS terminal
> emulation (or is there another one, maybe without vnc/rfb?), and is LGPL
> licensed).

Yeah, the original idea behind ocaml-vnc was to use it as a PV framebuffer
for Xen, so that we could provide interactivity for Mirage.

However, it may be easier to provide a clean-slate ANSI terminal emulator
on top of the console API before jumping to a full graphical environment.
In addition to the ANSI terminal, that would need extending the CONSOLE
with a CONSOLE_RW to provide a callback for interactive input.

-anil

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