From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264585AbUHBOzG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:55:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266560AbUHBOzG (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:55:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:22703 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264585AbUHBOyu (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:54:50 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Subject: Re: OLS and console rearchitecture Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:54:34 +0600 Message-ID: <410E55AA.8030709@ums.usu.ru> References: <20040802142416.37019.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsa.physics.usu.ru User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20040802142416.37019.qmail@web14923.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jon Smirl wrote: > 15) Over time user space console will be moved to a model where VT's > are implemented in user space. This allows user space console access to > fully accelerated drawing libraries. This might allow removal of all of > the tty/vc layer code avoiding the need to fix it for SMP. One more minor problem. We need to ensure somehow that the "killall5" program from the sysvinit package will not kill our userspace console daemon at shutdown (got this when I tried to put fbiterm into initramfs). What is the best way to achieve that? -- Alexander E. Patrakov