Resurrecting fbdev
Resurrecting fbdev
Posted Jan 20, 2022 23:09 UTC (Thu) by blackwood (guest, #44174)In reply to: Resurrecting fbdev by josh
Parent article: Resurrecting fbdev
Next step is to get some kernel console on top of drm landed, for (emergency) logging. This should probably wait for the remaining console_lock rework so that we don't have to maintain our own kthread for offloading.
At that point all the pieces are in places for distros to ditch CONFIG_VT and fbcon and use kmscon for non-graphical shell logins on the local machine. Apparently logind/seatd already can do all the vt switching without CONFIG_VT (since that's needed for all the additional seats anyway), so that part is covered.
It might all actually happen this decade!
