Hi On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 > David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon >> program. It provides a >> terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based on >> DRM. It is written >> from scratch and needs as external dependencies only mesa (libdrm, >> libgbm, libEGL, libGLESv2), >> udev, xproto (build-time dep), libxkbcommon, freetype2 and currently >> glib (only for unicode support). >> It uses a very recent version of libxkbcommon but it should be easy to >> fix ./src/kbd_xkb.c if >> you use an older version (or use --disable-xkbcommon to use a very >> basic keyboard handler). > > Awesome! ?Now get the distros to pick this up and turn off CONFIG_VT! :)
Heh! It might take a few more weeks until the VTE layer is as good as the VT-emulation in the kernel. And then we still need to figure out a way to make the kernel spit console-log to the display while booting/etc. However, I plan to provide a prototype that works with CONFIG_VT=n to at least get some testing environment. I'll keep dri-devel informed if I think it's getting stable. > Ville's comment about a texture atlas is a good one, if nothing else I > think it should improve cache behavior. > > But it may be better to just do the font rendering with the CPU anyway > (though cairo-gl is supposedly getting better), and leave the GL for > transition effects and such. That's what I did now and it works perfectly well. I might add other backends in the future, though. > -- > Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center Cheers David
