From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Microcai Subject: VT console need rewrite Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:57:55 +0800 Message-ID: <1290941875.13526.15.camel@cai.gentoo> Reply-To: microcai@fedoraproject.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:subject:from:reply-to :to:content-type:organization:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dyEKvYvbx3ogbgTMmTDn08QGkr1bCJl2B10rFVrUFL8=; b=EdyvxNdqTnwm/LUSnkMwFEZk6SbiHOgJg4laMsLNwnjc8bAppnrL0kZ0nB6E+7rBsS mWq9BiBBSxlUJes5UagxV0+zSHl+MaGlv4t0+ra6y/2weUGkZOilqmFA6dgEJlHFTpyk dJPTcm7p1QLYp2QqKMWbLc9HG7JpPXqaYvIZw= Sender: linux-console-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-console@vger.kernel.org Hi, there I'm implementing the UNICODE font of the framebuffer console, (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/26/50 in case you do not got my email). But current vt code is too bugy, too many direct assumes about vt buffer, This makes me so hard to hack. There is TODO telling me to add UNICODE support, but no room for such code, that's why my patch is so tricky. And the code itself, if you'll excuse me, it isn't as beautiful as rest of the kernel. So, it really really need a clean rewrite.I'm ganna take is hard job. And, please tell me if is worth to do so.