From a120e0defd14f20ed1b2cb7796d47afbb2f0b54f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julius Werner Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:24:12 -0800 Subject: console: Add ANSI escape sequences for highlighting This patch adds ANSI escape sequences to highlight a log line based on its loglevel to the output of "interactive" consoles that are meant to be displayed on a terminal (e.g. UART). This should help make errors and warnings stand out better among the usual spew of debug messages. For users whose terminal or use case doesn't support these sequences for some reason (or who simply don't like them), they can be disabled with a Kconfig. While ANSI escape sequences can be used to add color, minicom (the presumably most common terminal emulator for UART endpoints?) doesn't support color output unless explicitly enabled (via -c command line flag), and other terminal emulators may have similar restrictions, so in an effort to make this as widely useful by default as possible I have chosen not to use color codes and implement this highlighting via bolding, underlining and inverting alone (which seem to go through in all cases). If desired, support for separate color highlighting could be added via Kconfig later. Signed-off-by: Julius Werner Change-Id: I868f4026918bc0e967c32e14bcf3ac05816415e8 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/61307 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Raul Rangel --- src/console/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/console/Kconfig') diff --git a/src/console/Kconfig b/src/console/Kconfig index f80d2e4972..37d8fefe96 100644 --- a/src/console/Kconfig +++ b/src/console/Kconfig @@ -395,6 +395,15 @@ config DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL endif +config CONSOLE_USE_ANSI_ESCAPES + bool "Use ANSI escape sequences for console highlighting" + default y + help + If enabled, certain consoles (e.g. UART) that are meant to be read on + a terminal will use ANSI escape sequences (like `ESC [1m`) to + highlight lines based on their log level. Disable this if your + terminal does not support ANSI escape sequences. + config NO_POST bool "Don't show any POST codes" default n -- cgit v1.2.3