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20 years of CONFIG_VT David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> According to slashdot: My linux-kernel VTs... ...can magically recover a system without a rootfs! provide a shell in the kernel! ...drive serial consoles! ...have a clean


  1. 20 years of CONFIG_VT David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>

  2. According to slashdot: My linux-kernel VTs...

  3. ...can magically recover a system without a rootfs!

  4. …provide a shell in the kernel!

  5. ...drive serial consoles!

  6. ...have a clean code-base!

  7. ...haven't had any bugs in the last century!

  8. linux-0.01 “Hopefully this will be a rather complete vt102 implementation” (drivers/tty/vt/vt.c)

  9. Unix Session-Management setsid() / setpgid() “I haven't get the stomach for it. I also don't fully understand sessions/pgrp etc. Let somebody who does explain it.”

  10. linux-0.11 console beeping

  11. linux-0.12 VTs!

  12. linux-0.96a X11 support: – KDSETMODE – KDSKBMODE

  13. linux-0.99.1 VT_SETMODE (and advanced beeping)

  14. linux-1.3.38 TGA-console

  15. linux-1.3.94 fbdev support

  16. linux-2.1.67 ● fbcon ● txtcon ● vgacon ● fonts

  17. kmscon

  18. systemd-logind

  19. open(“/dev/<sth>”, …) logind.TakeDevice(“/dev/<sth>”)

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