RE: [Linuxconsole-dev] Welcome!!!

[Brad D. <Br...@NE...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon M. Taylor [mailto:ta...@ec...]
> 
> 	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 
> |->.

Rockin! :)

> 	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,

Each head should have it's own console.  Is this already being worked on
now?

> 	* Cleaner and more abstract [virtual] console representation,

I like the idea of moving /dev/fbx to /dev/fb/fbx/,fbx+1/... and each head
having it's own VTs.  I don't think this will be easily backward compatible
and are there possible race conditions with each head having it's own VTs?

> 	* fbcon backwards compatibility,
> 	* /dev/gfx integration,
> 	* Abstract input devices and event flow graphing,
> 	* ...others...

How does this fit in with DRI (I'm unable to find decent documentation)?
Are gfx and DRI trying to do the same thing?

> 2: What does Linus want?

Beer?

> 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.

I'm slowly still looking over EvStacks...  No opinions, yet.

Thanks,

Brad Douglas
br...@ne...
http://www.linux-fbdev.org