> I am proposing a replacement for the agetty that we spawn on TTY1.
> It would only apply to the first TTY because the replacement has
> its own version of multiple screens. It doesn't require multiple TTYs
> to simulate the same effect. We could use fbterm or kmscon to do this.
> There are many advantages over the plain old framebuffer and agetty
> combination:
>
> 1) faster text rendering
> 2) capacity to render most if not all unicode text because it uses higher
level font libraries
> 3) multiple screens on a single TTY
> 4) compatible with most fonts used by X11
> 5) can render wallpaper as the terminal background
>
> Thoughts? I have no plans to get rid of the old style agetty entirely, as
> it is a good fallback if all else fails. However, we may reduce the number
> we spawn in the future if the replacement terminal for TTY1 works out
well.

It sounds good for me.
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