On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 09:34, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Another idea would be to build a console is user space. Think of it as > > > a full screen xterm. A user space console has access to full hardware > > > acceleration using the DRM interface. > > > > Yep. And that's what Alan Cox wanted to do. Console in userspace, eye candy > > (using Porter-Duff blending) as much as you want, full UTF-8 support, ... > > Jon is the origin of those ideas not me, I'm merely supporting them > providing there is still a basic kernel side console.
Thanks for correcting me! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/