Re: Feature Freeze?

[Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 22:49, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:46:37PM +0800, Antonino Daplas wrote:
> > > I thought that the new API, separating the fbcon layer from the fbdev
> > > drivers would add support for this more easily. I guess it would be easy
> > > for the Appian Jeronimo 2000 board, which has two permedia3 chips, and
> > > thus can be seen as two separate devices. Cards with two ramdacs per
> > > chip, like the G400, the later radeon's and most recent cards would need
> > > driver level support, that is understandable, but is all there for fbcon
> > > to take advantage of it ? What about multi-seat, with two full consoles,
> > > with mouse and keyboard for each ?
> > > 
> > 
> > This was one of the goals of the Ruby project, but I think it's mostly 
> > the input layer that got into the kernel. 
> 
> :(((
> 
> > Fbcon needs to be cleaned up, a lot. It still implements the "current
> > console or foreground console" concept (only one console active at a
> > time).  Also, this is more of a job for linuxconsole than fbdev.  I may
> > be wrong though.
> 
> Mmm, do you know who is working on linuxconsole, and what their plan are ?

James also. I think the site is http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net.

Tony



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