Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

[Jiri Slaby]

On 24. 02. 25, 19:22, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Greg.
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 08:47:53 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 03:36:12PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 09:48:32 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>
> [ .... ]
>
> > > But I think you are also asking why I use the console at all.  That's
> > > a fair question which I'll try to answer.
>
> > I'm not disputing using the console, it's the vt layer that I'm talking
> > about.  The DRM developers have the long-term goal of getting rid of
> > CONFIG_VT which will remove a ton of mess that we have overall.
> > DRM-based consoles should provide the same functionality that a vt
> > console does today.  If not, please let them know so that the remaining
> > corner cases can be resolved.
>
> Does a DRM based console exist at the moment?  I spent quite some time
> looking for it yesterday, but found nothing.

I didn't read the thread, but are you looking e.g. for kmscon?

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