Re: [PATCH] neofb patches

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:21, James Simmons wrote:
> > > I can see how vgacon and fbcon would walk all over each other but how 
> > > would a serial console
> > > mess things up?
> > 
> > Same question... Where is the problem ?
> 
> Say two people are logged in. One on a serial console and another on the 
> framebuffer console. The person starts X fbdev from the serial console. 
> Ooops the fbcon user lost his console.

And ? Where is the problem ? I can do that today with ssh ... That's
normal console switch. X will trigger a console switch to a new VT,
it will not just tap on the current console "as is".

> > We need several level of arbitration, I'm not sure hwo to do that at
> > this point and I don't have time to dive into the DRI side of things.
> > 
> > Jon Smirl has been working on embedded mesa & moving DRI outside of
> > X. Unfortunately, last I heard, he was still on his trip of re-inventing
> > everything including replacing the fbdev's with his own stuff instead
> > of moving from what we have ...
> 
> Ug. This is sad :-(
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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