On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:50:20AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:42:33AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:22:34PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > This can be automated using the attached program > > > (warning, this is slightly dangerous since it copy-paste dummy text to > > > the console, be careful. It is safer to use it in a X terminal since then > > > the pasted text is sent to the underlying VT which is disabled, but it > > > is less reliable) > > > > My naive attempts to reproduce it on recent kernels have so far failed. > > Thanks! > > I do not know whether this is a good or bad thing :) > > Try to switch VT while the program is running.
Still no badness on vgacon. On 4.9 and 4.10-rc1+ it survives a long time of running your reproducer, no matter what VT I'm on. However, all my testing so far was on vgacon (because nvidia). When on nouveau, it locks up immediately, after 6 iterations. Tried on 4.10-rc1+ (current linus/master). Same on a crap armhf laptop using 3.0 vendor kernel, proprietary mali module. Like nouveau, that's some kind of graphical console. It's possible it's not a matter of console driver but screen size; however, some vandal removed svgatextmode and snapshot.d.o is down, so I can't test that right now (assuming svgatextmode would compile...). Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
