From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BXGIi-0005yk-Ai for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 02:20:16 -0700 Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.6] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.30) id 1BXGIh-0005lI-N9 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 02:20:15 -0700 From: Gerd Knorr Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [2.6 patch] terminal/console cleanups Message-ID: <20040607090328.GA20535@bytesex.org> References: <20040528135816.GA27837@bytesex.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 11:03:29 +0200 To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jeff Dike , uml devel On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 07:20:36PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > This is a major cleanup of the uml terminal drivers and console handling > > (console as in "where the kernel messages go to", not as in "linux > > virtual consoles). The changes in detail: > > Nice! Does this also mean the UML console no longer interferes with the normal > virtual console subsystem? Before it was not possible to enable CONFIG_VT > without some serious surgery to the UML vc subsystem, because both tried to > attach to the same device number. No, that hasn't changed. Guess you are asking because of the uml virtual framebuffer driver, where you want run fbcon on top of? I'm not sure how to deal with that best. Right now in UML /dev/tty[0-8] are simple terminal lines. /dev/tty0 hasn't the special meaning of "current foreground console" as there are simply no virtual consoles. It is possible to use screen to build a virtual-console like setup in a pure text-based environment, which works pretty good. It likely would also be possible to use CONFIG_VT and create a CONFIG_VT_UMLCON driver instead. Havn't looked at that. I hope going that route doesn't mean we'll have to implement something like screen inside the uml kernel ... By moving the stderr console code to another source file it should at least be possible to make the uml consoles a compile time option and then be able to use fbcon instead. Gerd -- Smoking Crack Organization ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel