Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Welcome!!!

[Jon M. T. <ta...@ec...>]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, James A Simmons wrote:

> 
> Welcome to the linux console project!!!!
> 
>     I see we have a quite a few people interested. I know some of the
> people on this list have attempted to design a new console system. The
> purpose of this project to unite the different workes people have done and
> to learn from each other experiences at trying to design a new console
> system. 
>    First things first. I need someone to work on the basic web pages.
> Even a link from http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net to
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3063 will do. Also long as we have
> something that makes it easy for people to remember to get to.

	Well, I don't think that I can help with this too much - my web
design skills are pretty bad.  Looka t http://libggi3d.sourceforge.net to
see what I am capable of |->.

> The second
> one is a little hard to remember. The next step to come up with a common
> design goal. I have seen quite a few different designs with different
> goals in mind. 

	I think that we have three major areas of concern which will drive
the design of this project:

1: What do we need?
	* Better multiheading, 
	* Cleaner and more abstract [virtual] console representation,
	* fbcon backwards compatibility,
	* /dev/gfx integration,
	* Abstract input devices and event flow graphing,
	* ...others...

2: What does Linus want?

3: What will Linus accept into 2.5.x?

	EvStacks was a _really_ good design, but I guss it was too complex
and ambitious for Linus.  Therefore, we really need to know where Linus
stands on the issues before we do any significant amount of design work
this time around.

Jon

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