On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:54 AM Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 18:08:58 -0500, Michael Jones wrote: > > [ .... ] > > > Without looking at the patch itself: > > > Have you considered something like kmscon as a userland alternative? > > To be honest, no. I wasn't really aware of it when I starting working on > the Linux console. > > According to Wikipedia, the last release was in 2013, and development > stopped altogether in 2015. The Gentoo package for it is masked. >
Good points, and I can't speak to the code cleanliness of kmscon, or potential security problems. That being said, even though I was annoyed when the scrollback was removed from the kernel, I do understand the reason for it being removed. It does seem like the kind of functionality that would be better provided by userspace. > > I installed it on my laptop, and aside from not working with gpmd or > > consolation for mouse support, it's a perfectly functional local tty. > > I suppose it's one of these programs that once working, pretty much > carries on working for ever. > That's entirely possible :-) Maybe someone (not necessarily you) will find the removal of the scrollback buffer to be enough motivation to bring kmscon back to life as a project.
