Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261421AbVCMSy6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:54:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261423AbVCMSy6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:54:58 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:43976 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261421AbVCMSyz (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:54:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:53:55 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Pavel Machek cc: James Simmons , Linux Frame Buffer Device Development , Alan Cox , Michal Januszewski , Linux Kernel Development , "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [announce 0/7] fbsplash - The Framebuffer Splash In-Reply-To: <20050313182032.GA1427@elf.ucw.cz> Message-ID: References: <20050308015731.GA26249@spock.one.pl> <200503091301.15832.adaplas@hotpop.com> <9e473391050308220218cc26a3@mail.gmail.com> <1110392212.3116.215.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1110408049.9942.275.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050310145419.GD632@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <20050313182032.GA1427@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1852 Lines: 43 On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > Thats why moving the eye candy console into user space is such a good > > > > > idea. You don't have to run it 8) It also means that the console > > > > > development is accessible to all the crazy rasterman types. > > > > > > > > Yep. The basic console we already have. Everyone who wants eye candy can switch > > > > from basic console to user space console in early userspace. > > > > > > > > > > Heh, I'm afraid it does not work like that. Anyone who wants eye-candy > > > simply applies broken patch to their kernel... unless their distribution applied one > > > already. > > > > > > Situation where we have one working eye-candy patch would certainly > > > be an improvement. > > > > Why do we need patches in the kernel. Just set you config to > > CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE, CONFIG_FB, CONFIG_INPUT and don't set fbcon or > > vgacon. Then have a userspace app using /dev/fb and /dev/input create a > > userland console. There is no need to do special hacks in the kernel. > > Except that I'll not get usefull reports from Oopsen and panic's, > right? Ideally I'd also like high-priority kernel messages to be > displayed during boot. Indeed. I thought the idea was to use the existing fbcon support to draw emergency messages to the screen. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/