> 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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