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From: James S. <jsi...@tr...> - 2001-05-28 20:17:26
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Hi! This might be a improvement as several people had trouble with 2.4.4. Also the console display drivers initialization code has been cleaned up alot. It is really easy now to create a display driver. Also you can now have mda if configured by itself boot up right away like vgacon instead of later. I use this with fbcon to debug fbcon. Also we no longer need dummycon right away if every. Since the log buffer for printk is seperate I have it so printk messages are buffered until a console driver is loaded. Then it is flushed to the screen. This was a big step. The next steps for me is in order of most to least important are: 1) Write the font drawing code for dummy framebuffers. Important for vesafb and sa1100fb. 2) intergrate Andrew Morton's console/printk sync patches. 3) Fix VC resizing. You will be able to use stty to change your resolution :-) 4) Cleanup font handling. 5) Redo all the unicode code and have it work with Unicode 3.0 standard. It really sucks right now. 6) Rewrite GPM and remove selection code in the kernel. It doesn't belong their IMHO. 6) More improvements in the VT emulation code. |