Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:39:33 -0500 (EST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | Re: [Linuxconsole-dev] Splitting console driver and VT emulation |
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> Which obviously is perfectly possible -- the Japanese people have done > it for a long time (kcon). There are definite advantages to being in > user space, especially if you have to worry about large font sets. It > means it's pretty hard to get information should something break > during early kernel bootup, though.
Yeah. Their are pro and cons to both ways.
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