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Alan Mackenzie: |
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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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It is commit 087b6cb17df5834d395ab72da3f937380470ba15, |
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between v5.4.65 and 66. |
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Perhaps also 0d123a8c64fde433a, cf5a7ded53652c3d63d72, and possible |
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other stuff. |
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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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Great, no more missing data when switching vts. |
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Btw, wasn't that added in commit aabd31c421ddc730edf6d89c4ed3885e4fca5e30 |
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but turned off by default. |
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> One ord two features haven't (yet) been implemented - having a |
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> single scroll buffer shared amongst all tty's isn't there, |
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Is there any reason to share the buffer ? |
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> Bug reports and other comments are welcome, of course. |
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git log drivers/video/console/vgacon.c etc. can give some ideas |
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what one is up against. |
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Regards, |
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/Karl Hammar |
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