On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 11:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Not going to happen. > > Why? 'printk'. > > If you can't handle printk, then you're basically useless. And printk > absolutely -has- to work in bad situations (the most important > messages could happen in any context).
Well... yes and no. If X is frontmost, printk is not going to be printed, ie, I'm talking about today, when the console is !KD_TEXT. There -is- a mechanism to deal with these things today, and the console semaphore does take care of accesses to the fb. (That doesn't exclude having the ability to force-switch back to kernel fb for printing things like oops btw, which KMS could do, but for basic access control, it makes sense). Cheers, Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
