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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-02-25T04:33:56Z

On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 09:08:50PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 24. 02. 25, 19:22, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, Greg.
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 08:47:53 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 03:36:12PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 09:48:32 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >
> > [ .... ]
> >
> > > > But I think you are also asking why I use the console at all. That's
> > > > a fair question which I'll try to answer.
> >
> > > I'm not disputing using the console, it's the vt layer that I'm talking
> > > about. The DRM developers have the long-term goal of getting rid of
> > > CONFIG_VT which will remove a ton of mess that we have overall.
> > > DRM-based consoles should provide the same functionality that a vt
> > > console does today. If not, please let them know so that the remaining
> > > corner cases can be resolved.
> >
> > Does a DRM based console exist at the moment? I spent quite some time
> > looking for it yesterday, but found nothing.
>
> I didn't read the thread, but are you looking e.g. for kmscon?

Yes, that is what I was referring to, but couldn't remember the name,
thanks for the pointer.

greg k-h