SERDEV "Serial Device Bus" Added To Linux 4.11 Kernel

[nevion]

This is going to have painful repercussions for a decade or more... I can't wait to explain it to all the people not in the know.

[ssokolow]

This is ports related not terminal related. In other words new ways to handle serially interfaced hardware. I don't see a problem really.

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Is TTY still on schedule to be dropped from the kernel?

Why doesn't anyone implement a TTY/console/terminal/VT as a Wayland compositor that runs in userspace?
Setup a OpenGL context that renders text and use libinput to get input and then run a user-specified shell such as Bash.

...which is a valid concern because it's been proposed at least twice and, as far as I remember, it was a lack of contributor time/willpower that stopped it before, not an objection to the design.

[cj.wijtmans]

News says: "new way to operate devices attached to UART (serial) ports on a SoC"

People's reaction: "if they remove serial I'm switching to HURD, Systemd is bad"

At least nobody made a comment to implement microcode with rustlang.

[starshipeleven]

...which is a valid concern because it's been proposed at least twice and, as far as I remember, it was a lack of contributor time/willpower that stopped it before, not an objection to the design.

What has been proposed for console was to make a DRI driver to replace framebuffer, then run console on that instead than on framebuffer.

It is a few dozens of miles distant from "a TTY/console/terminal/VT as a Wayland compositor running in userspace" (which is basically what is Xorg in text mode, although it is not a wayland-based compositor of course).