On 5/21/07, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This just needs a userspace console again a parallel problem that really isn't much to do with the problem set this work is trying to solve... it should enable it...
When I went through the design process for all this I came to the same conclusion about needing a user space console process. User space console does impact on all of this because it implies that the current console should be be defeatured down until it becomes only a system recovery console and not a console for everyday use. For example, one part of the defeaturing would be to remove the drawing acceleration code in the existing fbdev console drivers and to rework it to support accelerated drawing from the user space console implementation. You want the system recovery console mode to be as simple as possible so that it is always guaranteed to work. User space console is also what leads to the idea of compiling VT out of the kernel. Once you decide that a user space console is needed then the per CRTC device node becomes more obvious since different people can be logged onto the different consoles. All of the points in the list are interrelated and the architecture needs to address everything as a unified whole. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
