linux-kernel - Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

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Message-ID: <2025022802-monitor-moneyless-0f84@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:24:33 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@....de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More than 256/512 glyphs on the Liinux console

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 01:05:15PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Greg.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 11:09:57 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 04:15:38PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 21:08:50 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
> [ .... ]
> 
> > > > I didn't read the thread, but are you looking e.g. for kmscon?
> 
> > > No, I wasn't.  I was looking for a drm replacement for the drivers/tty/vt
> > > code inside the kernel.  I may have misunderstood Greg when he referred
> > > to a replacement which uses drm.
> 
> > No, this is what I was referring to.  Also maybe we should be asking on
> > the drm list?  The developers there were working to get rid of CONFIG_VT
> > so I know they have plans for what they see replacing it.
> 
> Which list would that be?  There are over 100 occurrences of "DRM" in the
> file MAINTAINERS.  I am also interested in this.  There is a very great
> deal of functionality in drivers/tty/vt.  It will be quite a task to
> replace it.

dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org is the list.

thanks,

greg k-h