[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Apr 1 14:40:33 PDT 2012


> the VT-emulation in the kernel. And then we still need to figure out a
> way to make the kernel spit console-log to the display while
> booting/etc. However, I plan to provide a prototype that works with
> CONFIG_VT=n to at least get some testing environment. I'll keep
> dri-devel informed if I think it's getting stable.

Nothing stops the DRI driver registering a console handler without being
a VT. Just as we can use the parallel port.

Alan


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