[U-Boot] Curses from u-boot

[Heiko Schocher]

Hello Daniel,

Am 21.09.2016 um 15:25 schrieb Daniel.:
> Hi everybody, I was wondering what would be the difficult to run some
> curses based menu from u-boot.
>
> I've been search for curses porting and found this:
> http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/ncurses/hackguide.html. The big
> problem here is that u-boot is not a operating system.
>
> The motivation is simple. Would be nice to have boot options presented
> to user as a curses menu, like grub does, wouldn't?
>
> The easy work arround I found here is booting to some initrd with
> curses installed. Then use the user input to configure u-boots
> enviroment so that the next reboot takes that configuration in
> account. What you think? I'm not using anything like this right know
> but I would like to do it in future...

maybe its worth that you look into u-boot:/doc/README.menu and
u-boot:/doc/README.bootmenu

bye,
Heiko
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