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On Monday, April 5, 2021 7:12:07 PM CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> Yes, console soft scrolling is back! That essential feature that was |
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> stripped out of the kernel at around 5.4.x has returned! |
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> Only this time, it's even better! Instead of one scrollback buffer |
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> shared between all tty's, there's now a buffer for each tty. |
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> How to get it working: |
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> (i) Extract the enclosed patch file to your /usr/src/linux-5.10.27-gentoo |
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> directory (or probably any 5.10 kernel's). |
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> (ii) From that directory run $ patch -p0 < diff.20210405.diff. |
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> (iii)(a) If you've already got a working 5.10.27, do a $ make oldconfig. |
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> That should bring up the new configuration items, for which you can |
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> accept the defaults. These two items are a flag to enable the |
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> scrollback, and a buffer size defaulting to 128kB. |
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> (iii)(b) If you haven't yet got a 5.10.27, just configure your kernel in |
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> the usual way. The two new items are under Device Drivers/Graphics |
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> support/Console display driver support. |
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> (iv) Build the kernel. |
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> (v) Put the new kernel into your usual boot manager. |
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> (vi) Reboot and enjoy! |
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Thank you! |
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I will add this to my "/etc/portage/patches/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources" |
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directory. Right next to the gpl-defang patch. |