VGA arbitration: API proposal

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Jesse Barnes írta:
> On Saturday, March 05, 2005 10:35 am, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> 
>>Three large console subsytem cleanups went into AKPM's -mm tree,
>>that were also part of the ruby changes. I decided to rebase ruby
>>on 2.6.11-rc4 and the -mm cleanups, leaving out the modified terminal
>>emulation. That alone was more than one third of the whole diff.
>>Aivil Stoss made it fully working on 2.6.11-rc4-mm1.
>>
>>In the original ruby patch, all the function moving-around
>>accounted for another one third. I also avoided it wherever
>>it was possible. Now the latest ruby diff is very straightforward
>>in only 5760 lines. Well, actually it's 8547 lines but it contains
>>an accidentally left in .orig file.
>>
>>I talk about this patch:
>>http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/files/test/ruby-2.6.11-rc4-mm1-4.diff.bz2
> 
> 
> So this is all based on the fbcon code?  Are you slowly merging it upstream?  
> Seems like it would be a nice feature to have, and a lot of the refactoring 
> could probably be reused even if consoles eventually move to userspace, since 
> we still need to sanely handle multiple display devices with multiple ports, 
> etc.
> 
> Jesse

Yes, it works again with fbdev. Look at this mail from Aivil:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6733130&forum_id=5379

And we will try to get it upstream, yes.

I am cc-ing Aivil, he may want to comment on it more.

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi