* vga text console @ 2006-08-15 1:11 James C Georgas 2006-08-15 1:22 ` Antonino A. Daplas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: James C Georgas @ 2006-08-15 1:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel I can't seem to remove the VGA text console from my kernel configuration. Can someone please enlighten me? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 1:11 vga text console James C Georgas @ 2006-08-15 1:22 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2006-08-15 1:26 ` Antonino A. Daplas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 1:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James C Georgas; +Cc: linux-kernel On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:11 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > I can't seem to remove the VGA text console from my kernel > configuration. Can someone please enlighten me? You can't. It is always part of the kernel (for X86 at least). What's your intention? Tony ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 1:22 ` Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 1:26 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2006-08-15 1:41 ` James C Georgas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 1:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James C Georgas; +Cc: linux-kernel On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:22 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:11 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > > I can't seem to remove the VGA text console from my kernel > > configuration. Can someone please enlighten me? > > You can't. It is always part of the kernel (for X86 at least). What's > your intention? And correcting myself, you can configure out vgacon, but you have to define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, and undefine CONFIG_VT. Tony ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 1:26 ` Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 1:41 ` James C Georgas 2006-08-15 1:54 ` Antonino A. Daplas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: James C Georgas @ 2006-08-15 1:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Antonino A. Daplas; +Cc: linux-kernel On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:26 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:22 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:11 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > > > I can't seem to remove the VGA text console from my kernel > > > configuration. Can someone please enlighten me? > > > > You can't. It is always part of the kernel (for X86 at least). What's > > your intention? I want to write my own VGA text console driver. > And correcting myself, you can configure out vgacon, but you have to > define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, and undefine CONFIG_VT. > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of other subsystems, or does it just enable more options? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 1:41 ` James C Georgas @ 2006-08-15 1:54 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2006-08-15 2:09 ` James C Georgas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 1:54 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James C Georgas; +Cc: linux-kernel On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:41 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:26 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 09:22 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 21:11 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > > > > I can't seem to remove the VGA text console from my kernel > > > > configuration. Can someone please enlighten me? > > > > > > You can't. It is always part of the kernel (for X86 at least). What's > > > your intention? > > I want to write my own VGA text console driver. > > > And correcting myself, you can configure out vgacon, but you have to > > define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, and undefine CONFIG_VT. > > > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of > other subsystems, or does it just enable more options? > It basically opens up a lot of config options. It may also disable a few incompatible options (ie, CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE), and enable a few. It will require that you know exactly what options need to be turned on or off. Tony ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 1:54 ` Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 2:09 ` James C Georgas 2006-08-15 6:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: James C Georgas @ 2006-08-15 2:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Antonino A. Daplas; +Cc: linux-kernel On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:54 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of > > other subsystems, or does it just enable more options? > > > > It basically opens up a lot of config options. It may also disable a few > incompatible options (ie, CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE), and enable a few. It > will require that you know exactly what options need to be turned on or > off. Oh. That actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of the Minimal Kernel. I'm kind of surprised that the VGA console can't be built as a module, like the other console drivers in the kernel can be. Is this on purpose, or is it just that nobody has gotten around to it? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 2:09 ` James C Georgas @ 2006-08-15 6:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas 2006-08-15 6:52 ` Jan Engelhardt 0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread From: Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 6:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: James C Georgas; +Cc: linux-kernel On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:09 -0400, James C Georgas wrote: > On Tue, 2006-15-08 at 09:54 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > > If I define CONFIG_EMBEDDED, is that going to change the behaviour of > > > other subsystems, or does it just enable more options? > > > > > > > It basically opens up a lot of config options. It may also disable a few > > incompatible options (ie, CONFIG_DEBUG_VERBOSE), and enable a few. It > > will require that you know exactly what options need to be turned on or > > off. > Oh. That actually sounds like it could be a lot of fun. I'm a big fan of > the Minimal Kernel. > > I'm kind of surprised that the VGA console can't be built as a module, > like the other console drivers in the kernel can be. Is this on purpose, > or is it just that nobody has gotten around to it? > It's possible to make vgacon modular, the changes required will be minimal. It would seem that nobody ever had a need for it, so that was never done. Tony ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
* Re: vga text console 2006-08-15 6:11 ` Antonino A. Daplas @ 2006-08-15 6:52 ` Jan Engelhardt 0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread From: Jan Engelhardt @ 2006-08-15 6:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Antonino A. Daplas; +Cc: James C Georgas, linux-kernel >> I'm kind of surprised that the VGA console can't be built as a module, >> like the other console drivers in the kernel can be. Is this on purpose, >> or is it just that nobody has gotten around to it? > >It's possible to make vgacon modular, the changes required will be >minimal. It would seem that nobody ever had a need for it, so that was >never done. Maybe someday this will happen automagically when VGA/FB switching is finished. Jan Engelhardt -- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 8+ messages in thread
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