Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Splitting console driver and VT emulation

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 09:39:33 EST


> Which obviously is perfectly possible -- the Japanese people have done
> it for a long time (kcon). There are definite advantages to being in
> user space, especially if you have to worry about large font sets. It
> means it's pretty hard to get information should something break
> during early kernel bootup, though.

Yeah. Their are pro and cons to both ways.

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