On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:50:52AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > On 2023-04-19, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Direct Rendering Manager is mainly for running X (possibly Wayland > > too). As OpenWRT is meant for networking devices, there is no need > > for the support to be present. > > That is only partially true, the Linux kernel is making a strong push > away from deprecated (FB_*) graphics drivers to DRM based ones, with > kernel based mode setting this is getting more (any) attention for > console support as well. Even without getting anywhere near X/ Wayland, > there is more than just a 80x25 tty on real hardware (and even VMs).
Real x86 hardware often has the capability to use a serial port as console. The conventional UEFI implementation fully supports this use case. I can well believe a number of manufacturers disabling the functionality though. VMs *can* have more than a 80x25 tty. By the time you're getting to 4 or more VMs you should be thinking about disabling the functionality due to the heavy overhead (unless the OS in the VM doesn't support serial consoles). -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | ehem+sig...@m5p.com PGP 87145445 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 8A19\___\_|_/58D2 7E3D DDF4 7BA6 <-PGP-> 41D1 B375 37D0 8714\_|_/___/5445 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
