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Message-Id: <20180718010242.5254-4-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:02:42 -0400
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
Dave Mielke <Dave@...lke.cc>,
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-console@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] vt: add /dev/vcsu* to devices.txt
Also mention that the traditional devices provide glyph values whereas
/dev/vcsu* is unicode based.
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
index 4ec843123c..1649117e60 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt
@@ -173,14 +173,18 @@
they are redirected through the parport multiplex layer.
7 char Virtual console capture devices
- 0 = /dev/vcs Current vc text contents
- 1 = /dev/vcs1 tty1 text contents
+ 0 = /dev/vcs Current vc text (glyph) contents
+ 1 = /dev/vcs1 tty1 text (glyph) contents
...
- 63 = /dev/vcs63 tty63 text contents
- 128 = /dev/vcsa Current vc text/attribute contents
- 129 = /dev/vcsa1 tty1 text/attribute contents
+ 63 = /dev/vcs63 tty63 text (glyph) contents
+ 64 = /dev/vcsu Current vc text (unicode) contents
+ 65 = /dev/vcsu1 tty1 text (unicode) contents
...
- 191 = /dev/vcsa63 tty63 text/attribute contents
+ 127 = /dev/vcsu63 tty63 text (unicode) contents
+ 128 = /dev/vcsa Current vc text/attribute (glyph) contents
+ 129 = /dev/vcsa1 tty1 text/attribute (glyph) contents
+ ...
+ 191 = /dev/vcsa63 tty63 text/attribute (glyph) contents
NOTE: These devices permit both read and write access.
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2.17.1
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