On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 19:21:30 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > On 8/31/26 16:45, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2026 at 08:20:10 +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > >> Am 29.08.26 um 16:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
[ .... ] > > I've been using the console for around 28 years, now. I don't recall it > > crashing at all. My current font and keyboard files are in exactly the > > same form as they were 28 years ago. These formats are stable and > > dependable. > >> I've spend the last years working on related code (fbcon) and it > >> mostly feels dated and unmaintained. Our prime implementation (again > >> fbcon) has been de-facto unmaintained for years. We recently had > >> contributors who are pushing the ioctls semantics and found bugs in > >> fbcon for a number of corner cases. [ .... ] > >> FTR I'm not at all interested in eliminating the kernel's console. > > Other people, in particular Greg KH, have said this is the current aim. > > I'm worried for myself. It is far from clear that there is a suitable > > replacement for the kernel's console, and its elimination could easily > > happen without that replacement. I suppose I could always (laboriously) > > maintain the console for myself personally. Or there's always the BSDs. > > I just don't know what I'd do. > Alan, I really appreciate your efforts to enhance the kernel console code! > And I'm not interested to eliminate the kernel console either. > >> But there are must-have features and nice-to-have features. IMHO for > >> the kernel console i18n really belongs in the later category. > > It's 2026, four decades after VGA was the latest thing, and Unicode > > support is merely a nice-to-have? > No. IMHO Unicode support would be great. Thank you, indeed! That's cheering to hear. > Thanks! > Helge -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
