Originally posted by varikonniemi
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The Linux 6.7 Merge Window Is Massive With Many New Features
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With all these new changes I cant wait for other people to test it first
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I find it pretty sad that the in-kernel console is being removed. There should be a way to interact with the kernel even if userspace blows up.
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Originally posted by ehansin View Post
Serious question, because I just don't know. Is there a general sense that it makes sense to get the virtual terminal stuff out of kernel space (i.e. as currently is for the most part) and into userspace (i.e. what kmscon is supposed to do)? And if you get the VT stuff into kernel space, what do the userspace components communicate with? Do the interact directly with the kernel API and system calls?
I'm asking these question with the best knowledge I have, may have gotten some terms wrong, but genuinely curious. I have heard about kmscon over the years, know it is an attempt to create a KMS-based virtual terminal implementation, but that really not going anywhere these days. So curious if otherwise still value in the concept. Thanks as always.
The user-space VT uses KMS and DRM device nodes and ioctls to talk to the kernel. It also uses protocols like TTY, consolekit, and utmp to talk to other user-space components.
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Originally posted by ehansin View Post
Serious question, because I just don't know. Is there a general sense that it makes sense to get the virtual terminal stuff out of kernel space (i.e. as currently is for the most part) and into userspace (i.e. what kmscon is supposed to do)? And if you get the VT stuff into kernel space, what do the userspace components communicate with? Do the interact directly with the kernel API and system calls?
I'm asking these question with the best knowledge I have, may have gotten some terms wrong, but genuinely curious. I have heard about kmscon over the years, know it is an attempt to create a KMS-based virtual terminal implementation, but that really not going anywhere these days. So curious if otherwise still value in the concept. Thanks as always.
more info on it can be found here. a good starting place, iirc it's a wee bit dated now but it should be fine to get more or less somewhat caught up https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comme...g_vtn_in_2023/
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Originally posted by Quackdoc View Posti'm still waiting for a modern kmscon alternative T.T
I'm asking these question with the best knowledge I have, may have gotten some terms wrong, but genuinely curious. I have heard about kmscon over the years, know it is an attempt to create a KMS-based virtual terminal implementation, but that really not going anywhere these days. So curious if otherwise still value in the concept. Thanks as always.
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meh. Mostly gpu stuff that's inherently large. No RT? No console revamp?
Scheduler changes in 6.6 were far more interesting.
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Did I miss something, or little.big cluster scheduling improvements by Intel devs once again didn't make it? Same for the missing realtime pieces?
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