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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: kmscon: replacing CONFIG_VT
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 17:14:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120516171421.5fca49f3@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANq1E4SGoRZaGjNZqPOA6g4COQmXxNr4kFBPMhxAonZqO_aOtQ@mail.gmail.com>

> That's just some of my ideas on this topic. Maybe you can give me some
> hints whether it actually makes sense ;)

For a lot of hardware it may not matter. If it goes bang you boot with a
debugging kernel (one containing a vt driver)

If your user space goes castors up early then you are going to need input
facilities anyway (consider the fedora rescue mode in dracut for example) 

As far as compatibility goes we have the ttyprintk driver which just
provides a fake tty which types nothing and whose output goes to the
console.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-16 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-16 15:58 kmscon: replacing CONFIG_VT David Herrmann
2012-05-16 16:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-05-19  8:48   ` David Herrmann
2012-05-19 11:55     ` Alan Cox
2012-05-19 12:00     ` Alan Cox

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