Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-03-01T05:32:19Z

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.
>
> Which list would that be? There are over 100 occurrences of "DRM" in the
> file MAINTAINERS. I am also interested in this. There is a very great
> deal of functionality in drivers/tty/vt. It will be quite a task to
> replace it.

dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org is the list.

thanks,

greg k-h