Re: Linux console internationalization

[James S. <jsi...@in...>]

> > > How important is it to have an in-kernel console?
> > >
> It'd be pretty annoying if you could crash the console.  Since it's
> in-kernel it's almost impossible (you can only stuck the video card in
> some mode the kernel doesn't understand ;-).  But we do trust e.g.
> init(1) to be a user-space program.  I don't see strong reasons why
> the console can't move to user-space, except for the fact that it
> currently has a lot of syscall/ioctl hooks and interfaces would have
> to be added to connect them to the user-space console process.

Also X windows will not function without a VT console :-( 
 
> But there is another good reason to keep the kernel console and it's
> non-unicode modes: there are very minimalistic builds of linux out
> there, a dumb in-kernel implementation where the buffer is in video
> memory is the most effective solution possible.

Yeap. Working on such a system.