[Linuxconsole-commit]CVS: ruby/web index.html,NONE,1.1 index.php,NONE,1.1

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<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>The Linux Console Project</H1>

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<H1>Charter and Objectives:</H1>

Our charter is to clean up and properly maintain the Linux console
driver. There has been scattered work on the console going on for
some time. This project will try to pull it all together into a
coherent architecture from which we can generate clean patches 
for Linus and the core kernel team.

Right now the console has a couple of problems:

<ol>
<li>The built-in ANSI X3.64/ECMA-48 terminal emulation is incomplete
    and in some respects incorrect.<p>

<li>Terminal emulation is much too intertwined with the lower 
    levels of the console implementation (e.g. fbdev). Eventually
    terminal emulations should be loadable modules.<p>
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There's demand for many features that have not yet been implemented.
These include:

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<li> Multi-head operation -- console instances running on multiple
     (possibly dissimilar) video cards.
<li> A scrollback buffer implemented in the console itself.
<li> Support for different fonts, keymaps, and textmodes per VC.
<li> Better Unicode support.
</ul>

<H1>Deliverables:</H1>

This project aims to deliver three things:
<ol>
<li>
Sapphire: console.c and man page patches for 2.0.x and 2.2.x to fix
ANSI conformance in the terminal emulation. These need to go to Alan
Cox for merging into the stable tree.

<li>
Emerald: console.c and man page patches for 2.3.x to fix ANSI conformance in
the terminal emulation. These need to go to Linus for inclusion
before 2.4.

<li>
Ruby: A line of patches for 2.4.x that implements the heavy stuff; fbdev
refactoring, multihead, scrollback, etc. These can't go in until 2.5.x.
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<H1>Project Status:</H1>

Development is moving fast. We already have candidate Sapphire and
Emerald patches that work. We expect to be able to ship Sapphire and Emerald,
with full documentation, before the end of March 2000.

<H1>People:</H1>

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<dt> <a href="mailto:jsi...@li...">James Simmons</a>
<dd> Project admin on SourceForge. The release master.  
     Doing fbdev refactoring, multihead support.<p>

<dt><a href="mailto:dom...@un...">Dominik Kubla</a> 
<dd> Doing ANSI/ECMA-48 terminal emulation coding.<p>

<dt><a href="mailto:es...@th...">Eric S. Raymond</a>
<dd>Project webmaster, co-admin, and documentation person.  Interested
    in terminfo and ANSI conformance. (Eric maintains the master 
    terminfo file.)<p>

<dt><a href="vo...@su...">Vojtech Pavlik</a>
<dd>Interested in input device refactoring.
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<H1>Related Resources:</H1>

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<li>Our <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3063">SourceForge page</a>.<p>

<li>Dominik Kubla's
<a href="http://www-klinik.uni-mainz.de/staff/kubla/Linux/">emulation patches</a>;
these will probably be the basis of our first two deliverables.<p>

<li>Vojtech Pavlik's <a
href="http://www.suse.cz/development/input/">input drivers</a>, a
previous effort in this direction which we hope to integrate.<p>

<li>
EvStack, another previous attempt associated with the GGI project.
There is a <a href="http://zhrodague.net/~jmcc/ggi/EvStack">home
site</a>; you can also browse some <a
href="http://zhrodague.net/~jmcc/ggi/EvStack/paper/">documentation</a>
describing their architecture and approach.

<li>Steffen Seeger tells us that his
<a href="http://kgi.sourceforge.net">KGI implementation</a>
tries to carry forward some of the EvStack ideas while being `less 
invasive'.<p>

<li><a href="mailto:And...@cw...">Andries Brouwer</a>
maintains the Linux kernel keyboard support and kbd tools.<p>

<li>The <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/terminfo">terminfo/termcap</a>
home page.<p>

<li>The <a href="http://vt100.net">VT Terminal Information</a> site.
These people have the VT220 reference manual online.

<li>The 
<a href="ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vttest/vttest.tar.gz">vttest</a>
program tests an emulations's conformance to a VT100.<p>
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