From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.muc.de (mail.muc.de [193.149.48.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ECD6A1F8BCC for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:31:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.149.48.3 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741120268; cv=none; b=i3RzWSKspxdTfftZPqw5ITZLcule6v6Ctj0vTbSIlJW0cks/lADMh0Pgsd9qn4BMGOw4ba4a90Mqk0tNCyXkkE+IwcphS9cQGw+GRSBZslYuJBGsSGoNHYv7DCOyAXEzyPnNxQteH3mxlDa12fm3jlfj/U0IbruxnpVBJhbeTU8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1741120268; c=relaxed/simple; bh=mzdC7fkkCvMgbcc9+AFuPPSV2MdSt3HX1JwBHsD4cP8=; h=Date:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:From; b=mlpweQLYewufRkBwTVwf4NacDznECQvzNwoCh7V2ABzzh88XX/upBTqNOo83S8IAzPaLxNwesYaiV3fXc3hejTS2HxjsxjW1HxWtU/7YYITof8I8LTi66kzgdgRFIZejNqbelbbhXB9CsL1GrGMu/wJ5n0XyEpLlZ5geRXRZZVU= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=muc.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=muc.de; arc=none smtp.client-ip=193.149.48.3 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=muc.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=muc.de Received: (qmail 5333 invoked by uid 3782); 4 Mar 2025 21:30:57 +0100 Received: from muc.de (pd953a22b.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.83.162.43]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:30:56 +0100 Received: (qmail 12384 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Mar 2025 20:30:56 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 20:30:56 +0000 To: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Simona Vetter , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console Message-ID: References: <2025022243-street-joylessly-6dfa@gregkh> <2025022355-peroxide-defacing-4fa4@gregkh> <2025022652-uptown-cheating-5df8@gregkh> <2025022802-monitor-moneyless-0f84@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2025022802-monitor-moneyless-0f84@gregkh> X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Hello, dri-devel. The context of the following post is a thread on Linux kernel lists where I am proposing to extend the Linux console to handle more than 256/512 distinct glyphs. On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 20:24:33 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 01:05:15PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Greg. > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 11:09:57 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 04:15:38PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 21:08:50 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > > I didn't read the thread, but are you looking e.g. for kmscon? > > > > No, I wasn't. I was looking for a drm replacement for the > > > > drivers/tty/vt code inside the kernel. I may have misunderstood > > > > Greg when he referred to a replacement which uses drm. > > > No, this is what I was referring to. Also maybe we should be > > > asking on the drm list? The developers there were working to get > > > rid of CONFIG_VT so I know they have plans for what they see > > > replacing it. Is this (still) the case? Have people on dri-devel developed a Linux console which supersedes the code in drivers/tty/vt, or are they in the midst of doing so? Where can I best inform myself about this, and (possibly) install this replacement console on my system for my own use? Thanks for any information! [ .... ] > dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org is the list. > thanks, > greg k-h -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).