Re: [BK console] console updates.

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Aivils Stoss]

Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:40:05 -0800 (PST) James Simons wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:38PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
>> > I doubt this code will go into 2.5.X but it is avaiable for anyone to
play
>> > with it.
>>
>> Why?  I don't want to live another release with the old, crappy console,
>> and you've been working on this during almost all of 2.4 now..
>
>Give my console diff a try.
>
>http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/console.diff.gz
>
>Its against 2.5.45. It has 3 bugs I know of.
>
>1) Switch back to X messes up the screen.

Already fixed in the linuxconsole 2.4.X backport http://startx.times.lv/

Aivils Stoss

--- linus-2.5/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c    Mon Nov  4 11:33:57 2002
+++ linus-2.5/drivers/char/vt_ioctl.c.changed      Mon Nov  4 11:36:45 2002
@@ -1089,17 +1089,17 @@ int vt_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, str
                    if (!tmp) {
                         tmp = vc_allocate(vc->vt_newvt);
                         if (!tmp) {
                              i = vc->vt_newvt;
                              vc->vt_newvt = -1;
                              return i;
                         }
                    }
-
+                   vc->vt_newvt = -1;
                    /*
                     * When we actually do the console switch,
                     * make sure we are atomic with respect to
                     * other console switches..
                     */
                    acquire_console_sem();
                    complete_change_console(tmp,
vc->display_fg->fg_console);
                    release_console_sem();

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: [BK console] console updates.

[James Simmons]

> >1) Switch back to X messes up the screen.
>
> Already fixed in the linuxconsole 2.4.X backport http://startx.times.lv/

Applied :-)

k

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

>    Along with the new fbdev api I also have rewritten the console layer.
> The goals are:

Current 2.5.45 (and previous 2.5's) has funny problems on my vesafb
machines [like half of letters appearing during emacs session, to the
point you do ^L to repaint]. I hope this fixes it....
								Pavel
-- 
When do you have heart between your knees?

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[James Simmons]

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:38PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> > I doubt this code will go into 2.5.X but it is avaiable for anyone to play
> > with it.
>
> Why?  I don't want to live another release with the old, crappy console,
> and you've been working on this during almost all of 2.4 now..

Give my console diff a try.

http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/console.diff.gz

Its against 2.5.45. It has 3 bugs I know of.

1) Switch back to X messes up the screen.

2) I had to disable the beeper. I have to think of a proper solution to
   that problem with Vojtech.

3) Software suspend is broken because the console has moved from the
   global int currcons to private struct vc_data to represent a VC.
   BTW what was the author of that code trying to do any ways?

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[James Simmons]

> James Simmons wrote:
> > Okay. Here is the new console system. The patch is against 2.5.45.
> > Please note only vgacon has been fixed to work with this new api.
> >
> > http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/console.diff.gz
> >
> > Diff stats:
> >  arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.s                     |  109
>
> Your patch creates the above linker script.  It appears to be a copy
> of vmlinux.lds.S from the same directory.

Strange. I fixed that. All clean.

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Petr Baudis]

Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:32:18AM CET, I got a letter,
where Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> told me, that...
> James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > bk://linuxconsole.bkbits.net
> > 
> > BTW I will make patches avaiable as soon as 2.5.45 comes out.
> 
> Don't even bother posting to the list without a patch.  Saying you want
> testers and not providing a patch is just rediculous.

As far as I understand it, he just provided you a status report so that you
could see what's going on etc (especially relevant around the Oct-31 deadline),
and he fullfiled his promise and sent the patches as soon as 2.5.45 came out,
didn't he? So what's wrong?

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Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Skip Ford]

James Simmons wrote:
> Okay. Here is the new console system. The patch is against 2.5.45.
> Please note only vgacon has been fixed to work with this new api.
> 
> http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/console.diff.gz
> 
> Diff stats:
>  arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.s                     |  109

Your patch creates the above linker script.  It appears to be a copy
of vmlinux.lds.S from the same directory.

-- 
Skip

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

Quoting Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>:

> > 3) Multi-desktop systems. Already done this. The current code in BK
> >    doesn't support this just yet as I have a few bug to beat out for
> >    single headed systems. It will take about one more week to get
> this
> >    ready.
> 
> this is something i know several people are interested in. and it
> does not touch core code to add, does it?
> 
> This is my personal-favorit-must-go-in-above-all-else-feature.
> 

My too,
except may be working lvm and soft-raid

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Skip Ford]

James Simmons wrote:
> 
> bk://linuxconsole.bkbits.net
> 
> BTW I will make patches avaiable as soon as 2.5.45 comes out.

Don't even bother posting to the list without a patch.  Saying you want
testers and not providing a patch is just rediculous.

-- 
Skip

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Martin J. Bligh]

> * Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> on Wed, Oct 30, 2002:
> 
>> James Simmons wrote:
>> > 
>> > bk://linuxconsole.bkbits.net
>> > 
>> > BTW I will make patches avaiable as soon as 2.5.45 comes out.
>> 
>> Don't even bother posting to the list without a patch.  Saying you want
>> testers and not providing a patch is just rediculous.
>> 
> 
> Not knowing where/how to stay current is also a bit ridiculous.
> 
> http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole/.  Click on "CVS".

Yeah, of course ... his psychic power must be weakening, he 
should have magically been able to guess that because ....

That's not a patch, it's a CVS tree. Just mail out a normal
patch, like everyone else.

M.

Re: [BK console] console updates.

[M. R. Brown]

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* Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> on Wed, Oct 30, 2002:

> James Simmons wrote:
> > 
> > bk://linuxconsole.bkbits.net
> > 
> > BTW I will make patches avaiable as soon as 2.5.45 comes out.
> 
> Don't even bother posting to the list without a patch.  Saying you want
> testers and not providing a patch is just rediculous.
> 

Not knowing where/how to stay current is also a bit ridiculous.

http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole/.  Click on "CVS".

M. R.

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Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Andreas Schuldei]

> 3) Multi-desktop systems. Already done this. The current code in BK
>    doesn't support this just yet as I have a few bug to beat out for
>    single headed systems. It will take about one more week to get this
>    ready.

this is something i know several people are interested in. and it
does not touch core code to add, does it?

This is my personal-favorit-must-go-in-above-all-else-feature.

[BK console] console updates.

[James Simmons]

Hi folks!!!

   Along with the new fbdev api I also have rewritten the console layer.
The goals are:

1) The idea here was to move alot of the basic functionaly present in
   alot of low level drivers into the the higher layers thus making the
   low level drivers smaller and cleaner. A good example is using the
   /dev/fb interface to resize a VC. That is just plain dumb.

2) The second goal was to seperate out the terminal emulation to allow
   for a light weight printk. Also the idea was to make the VT console
   system modular. On embedded devices then we can insmod the VT
   console system. This is partially done.

3) Multi-desktop systems. Already done this. The current code in BK
   doesn't support this just yet as I have a few bug to beat out for
   single headed systems. It will take about one more week to get this
   ready.


I doubt this code will go into 2.5.X but it is avaiable for anyone to play
with it.

bk://linuxconsole.bkbits.net

BTW I will make patches avaiable as soon as 2.5.45 comes out.

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Re: [BK console] console updates.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:56:38PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> I doubt this code will go into 2.5.X but it is avaiable for anyone to play
> with it.

Why?  I don't want to live another release with the old, crappy console,
and you've been working on this during almost all of 2.4 now..