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Hello, Michael. |
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On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 18:08:58 -0500, Michael Jones wrote: |
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> Without looking at the patch itself: |
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> Have you considered something like kmscon as a userland alternative? |
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To be honest, no. I wasn't really aware of it when I starting working on |
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the Linux console. |
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According to Wikipedia, the last release was in 2013, and development |
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stopped altogether in 2015. The Gentoo package for it is masked. |
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> I installed it on my laptop, and aside from not working with gpmd or |
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> consolation for mouse support, it's a perfectly functional local tty. |
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I suppose it's one of these programs that once working, pretty much |
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carries on working for ever. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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