On Monday, April 5, 2021 7:12:07 PM CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Yes, console soft scrolling is back! That essential feature that was > stripped out of the kernel at around 5.4.x has returned! > > Only this time, it's even better! Instead of one scrollback buffer > shared between all tty's, there's now a buffer for each tty. > > How to get it working: > (i) Extract the enclosed patch file to your /usr/src/linux-5.10.27-gentoo > directory (or probably any 5.10 kernel's). > (ii) From that directory run $ patch -p0 < diff.20210405.diff. > (iii)(a) If you've already got a working 5.10.27, do a $ make oldconfig. > That should bring up the new configuration items, for which you can > accept the defaults. These two items are a flag to enable the > scrollback, and a buffer size defaulting to 128kB. > (iii)(b) If you haven't yet got a 5.10.27, just configure your kernel in > the usual way. The two new items are under Device Drivers/Graphics > support/Console display driver support. > (iv) Build the kernel. > (v) Put the new kernel into your usual boot manager. > (vi) Reboot and enjoy! >
Thank you! I will add this to my "/etc/portage/patches/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" directory. Right next to the gpl-defang patch.
