On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:48:35PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > So booting without VTs is still a horrible experience on desktop-linux. If > anyone tried, they were presumably running away in tears. This series is a new > attempt to fix that. > > The first 4 patches are just small fixes/helpers. Patch 5 to 8 introduce > sd-gfx > and patch 9-11 add tests/examples for sd-gfx. The final patch adds a first > user > of sd-gfx to replace the kernel-internal terminal-emulator. The commit-msgs > should explain each change at length so I won't repeat it here. > > To anyone interested in testing: If you apply this series, you can run > "./test-kbd" to test keyboard handling, "./test-gfx" to test graphics > rendering > and "./systemd-consoled" to run the terminal-emulator. Note that you must run > all these from *within* an existing logind-session. That usually means from a > TEXT-VT. Also note that all these programs currently ignore the underlying VT > entirely (in case you run with CONFIG_VT=y). This has the side-effect, that > all > keystrokes go to both, the VT and the application. This will obviously be > changed in later versions, but I wanted to avoid any VT calls in these > helpers. > I currently work on logind to fix that. > > I had to strip the font-patches due to ML size-constraints. The full series is > always available on the-often-rebased-console-branch at: > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dvdhrm/systemd/log/?h=console > > Notes on where this is going, and *why*, below..
Very nice work, keep it up. greg k-h _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
