Re: faketty + vt7

[Hugo V. <hvw...@ya...>]

--- Aivils Stoss <ai...@un...> wrote:

> On Ceturtdiena, 1. Septembris 2005 21:11, Hugo
> Vanwoerkom wrote:

<snip>

> 
> Here is quite different layers. TTY and faketty.
> Both
> are completely independ, exluding LED handling.
> faketty do not knows nothing about VT-handlig.
> faketty
> send necessary characters to device file fttyXX.
> When
> userspace program opens fttyXX, then faketty grab
> that
> device and input events goes to faketty only.
> 
> This trick became possible besause of new input
> layer.
> Under new input layer every body can register
> unlimited
> count of event handlers of each input device.
> Current
> exist kbd mouse event. These 3 generates events via
> assigned device files with proper protocol.
> 
> Charaters, which runs via TTY in "RAW" mode, looks
> very simple for me. I face up to new handler. Code
> is as simple as possible. for that reason some
> ioctl's
> like bell are cleaned up but wholly possible.
> VT-handling is totally impossible. From view point
> of
> angry kernel developer that all is duplicate code.
> 
> Keyboard soft IRQ handler does not take care for
> grabed
> devices, so LED handling is exlusive and hijacked
> for the
> sake of text mode console.
> 
> You are wellcome to rewrite that damn readme :-)
> 

I still feel too uncertain of the technical issues.
Otherwise I would have thought of the solution. When
did it occur to you?

Under separate subject I am posting that I find
Faketty a better solution for my setup.

Hugo








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