Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Municon

[Jim P. <ji...@ag...>]

Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> One big one.  I fear some terminal emulation has to be in the kernel,
> otherwise the user will lose badly in pathological situations where the
> hypothetical daemon doesn't start up.  Never forget the run-level 1 case.

Definitely, yes, there has to be terminal emulation in the kernel.  I'm not
interested in trying to put a vital function of the kernel into a user-space
daemon.

It's just that for me, not being at all familiar with kernel-hacking, trying
to get this into the kernel seems an unnecessarily hard way of doing it.  I
can see how it is feasible in user-space, and I believe I can see how it can
be done without hitting any major obstacles.

The other thing is that a Chinese user has a lot of glyphs in their
character-set.  It may be better to keep these out of kernel memory.  Also,
a lot more allocation and deallocation of memory will be going on - we're
not working with a fixed grid of characters any more, when the font is
proportional.  Things need to be more flexible.

It doesn't feel right for this to be in the kernel.

Still, I'm open to suggestions -

Jim

-- 
 Jim Peters         /             __   |  \              Aguazul
                   /   /| /| )| /| / )||   \
 jim@aguazul.      \  (_|(_|(_|(_| )(_|I   /        www.aguazul.
  demon.co.uk       \    ._)     _/       /          demon.co.uk