[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-04-01 Thread Alan Cox
> the VT-emulation in the kernel. And then we still need to figure out a > way to make the kernel spit console-log to the display while > booting/etc. However, I plan to provide a prototype that works with > CONFIG_VT=n to at least get some testing environment. I'll keep > dri-devel informed if I t

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-04-01 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 > David Herrmann wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon >> program. It provides a >> terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-04-01 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ville Syrj?l? wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:30:20AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 >> David Herrmann wrote: >> >> > Hi >> > >> > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon >> > program. It provid

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-04-01 Thread Alan Cox
> the VT-emulation in the kernel. And then we still need to figure out a > way to make the kernel spit console-log to the display while > booting/etc. However, I plan to provide a prototype that works with > CONFIG_VT=n to at least get some testing environment. I'll keep > dri-devel informed if I t

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-04-01 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 > David Herrmann wrote: > >> Hi >> >> Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon >> program. It provides a >> terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based o

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-04-01 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:30:20AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 >> David Herrmann wrote: >> >> > Hi >> > >> > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon >> > program. It provid

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-28 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:30:20AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 > David Herrmann wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon > > program. It provides a > > terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emula

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-28 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Ville Syrj?l? wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:57:29PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: >> It needs some more work in the VTE layer and on the UI but it's >> I had several issues while writing it but most of them are fixed. One >> thing I remember is a performan

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-28 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:30:20AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 > David Herrmann wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon > > program. It provides a > > terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emula

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-28 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon > program. It provides a > terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based on > DRM. It is written > from scratch and needs as external depende

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-28 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:57:29 +0200 David Herrmann wrote: > Hi > > Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon > program. It provides a > terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based on > DRM. It is written > from scratch and needs as external depende

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-28 Thread David Herrmann
Hi On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Ville Syrjälä wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:57:29PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: >> It needs some more work in the VTE layer and on the UI but it's >> I had several issues while writing it but most of them are fixed. One >> thing I remember is a performan

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-27 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:57:29PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > It needs some more work in the VTE layer and on the UI but it's > I had several issues while writing it but most of them are fixed. One > thing I remember is a performance > issue running it on my Intel Atom N450. With 80x24 it works

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-27 Thread David Herrmann
Hi Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon program. It provides a terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based on DRM. It is written from scratch and needs as external dependencies only mesa (libdrm, libgbm, libEGL, libGLESv2), udev, xproto (build-

Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-27 Thread Ville Syrjälä
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:57:29PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > It needs some more work in the VTE layer and on the UI but it's > I had several issues while writing it but most of them are fixed. One > thing I remember is a performance > issue running it on my Intel Atom N450. With 80x24 it works

[ANNOUNCE] kmscon: Lazy-web's DRM based terminal emulator

2012-03-27 Thread David Herrmann
Hi Motivated by Jesse's letter to the lazyweb [1] I worked on a kmscon program. It provides a terminal-emulator similar to the in-kernel terminal-emulator based on DRM. It is written from scratch and needs as external dependencies only mesa (libdrm, libgbm, libEGL, libGLESv2), udev, xproto (build-